- From: Frank Yung-Fong Tang <franktang@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:04:48 -0400
- To: Unicode Mailing List <unicode@unicode.org>, WWW International <www-international@w3.org>
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This is not really an unicode issue, but i18n issue. For a long time, we all know the semantic of COLOR is an localization issue, but I recently encounter an interesting one. I found the COLOR used to mark the up and down of stock price is quite different between west and east For example, most of the US web site use green for increase + and red for decrease - http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=YHOO But Taiwan and China use opposite color- red for increase + and green for decrease - (yea, in Taiwan, the bull market is literally 'red market' :) Red is good and luck :) ) That make sense right. and the expression "All the market is very very green" mean "stock market crash" in Taiwan. I also found Korean use red for increase + and blue for decrease - http://kr.finance.yahoo.com/ In the other hand http://quote.yahoo.co.jp/ use black for increase + and red for decrease - I think it will be nice to collect the color data for locale :) Hopefully you can help Here is how it work. For each country/region in http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/diverse/doc/ISO_3166.html , I would like to collect plus= minus= For example, US: pos=green neg=red JP: pos=black neg=red TW: pos=red neg=green CN: pos=red neg=green KR: pos=red neg=blue Please indicate the ISO 3166 country code and send it to FrankTang@gmail.comand make sure you put "LC_STOCK_COLOR" in the subject. And If I can collect more than 80 countries/regions in one month (by end of Oct 2005), then I will draft a LC_STOCK_COLOR proposal and submit it to CLDR Can you help me out or find someone to help me out. When you submit your information to me, it will be nice if you can state the quality of your understanding in term of confidence Confidence= Sure, Probably, Guess Thanks. And spam the right newsgroup for me please, :) -- Frank Yung-Fong Tang 譚永鋒 Îñţérñåţîöñåļîžåţîöñ FrankTang@gmail.com Skype: FrankYungFongTang Yahoo IM: FrankYungFongTan MSN IM: FrankYungFongTang@hotmail.com
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