Symbol usage in UI - UI localization

Submitted by Sabine Emmy Eller on Tue, 07/28/2009 - 06:39

Some first notes just written down:We have to maintain layout as stable as possible. Considering that
potentially there are approximately 7000 languages only following ISO
639-3 (even if we would like to see them all, in particular those in
extinction, we will very likely have much less).
This means that the UI needs to be localized in many, many languages
and this again means that if we used text we will get in layout-trouble.
So even if we are using text during the discussion of the UI, as
much as possible on the UI must become graphical, that is using symbols
and buttons with symbols. Text about the function shall show up by
hovering over that symbols and buttons. Some like forward/backward are
well known and established anywhere. Others are already used in
translation environment and even more will need to be designed from
scratch.This contents is maintained on this page:http://voxhumanitatis.org/content/symbol-usage-ui-ui-localization
Sabine

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