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About a year ago, on 19th September 2008, Valerie Sutton released the International SignWriting Alphabet ISWA 2008.
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Two main writing systems have been developed: the phonemic Stokoe notation and the iconic SignWriting.
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SignWriting base symbols are encoded in plane 4 of Unicode, which provides 65,536 code points, easily covering the defined 61,343 Binary SignWriting code points.
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SignWriting is a writing system which uses visual symbols to represent the handshapes, movements, and facial expressions of sign languages.
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SignWriting can be easily learnt by signers and is more popular now than Stokoe.
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The advantage of SignWriting is that it is very intuitive : once a few rules have been learned, the signs can be understood and short handed very easily.
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Sign language written with SignWriting is processed in the brain the same way as actual conversation.
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The spatial aspect of SignWriting are encoded in a 2-dimensional coordinate system.
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Joe – I tend to compare SignWriting to other language representations that consist of iconic “characters” – things like Chinese and Japanese.
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Now I just have to figure out what to do when we hit on a sign language track that has been encoded in SignWriting and it represents captions.
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