RE: Glossary "non-text content" Small Nit

Hi Loretta,

At 18:51 12/10/2005, you wrote:

>I am worried about the proposed change because it seems to rule out
>things like PDF's presentation of text, where a mapping is available
>from the content to the Unicode representation, but the "native"
>representation is not Unicode.

Does my proposal address your concern?

Regards,

Christophe Strobbe


>Loretta Guarino Reid
>lguarino@adobe.com
>Adobe Systems, Acrobat Engineering
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On
> > Behalf Of Gregg Vanderheiden
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 9:04 AM
> > To: 'Chris Ridpath'; 'WAI WCAG List'
> > Subject: RE: Glossary "non-text content" Small Nit
> >
> >
> > I think this wording (Chris's) is much better at getting at the
>problem
> >
> > Unless I hear otherwise - I am changing the text we will review later
>to
> > this wording.  This allows us to get rid of the awkwardly worded note.
> >
> > Thanks Chris.
> >
> > Others - comment if you see a hole.
> >
> >
> >
> > Gregg
> >
> >  -- ------------------------------
> > Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D.
> > Professor - Ind. Engr. & BioMed Engr.
> > Director - Trace R & D Center
> > University of Wisconsin-Madison
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On
> > Behalf
> > Of Chris Ridpath
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 8:43 AM
> > To: WAI WCAG List
> > Subject: Glossary "non-text content" Small Nit
> >
> >
> > Our glossary defines non-text content as "Content that is not
>represented
> > by
> > a Unicode character or sequence of Unicode characters".
> >
> > Images and other binary content are often converted to Unicode
>characters
> > for transmission over the Internet. It could be interpreted that
>images
> > and
> > other binary content can be represented as Unicode characters which is
>not
> > the intent of our glossary term.
> >
> > I suggest that we add the text "in its native format" to the glossary
>term
> > so it reads:
> >
> > "Content that is not represented by a Unicode character or sequence of
> > Unicode characters in its native format."
> >
> > There is a note in the Wiki stating:
> > It is possible to encrypt or encode any content including binary files
> > using
> > Unicode characters but that would not "represent the content using
>Unicode
> > characters."
> >
> > I think that the character encoded file does represent (stand for,
> > symbolize) the original file. If we add the "in its native format"
>text
> > then
> > this note could be removed.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Chris
> >
> >

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