[IAEP] Pangaean

[Simon Schampijer]

On 05/20/2009 11:48 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> This project is in many ways complementary to Sugar:
>
>    http://www.pangaean.org
>
> I'd like to know what people think about it.  The software appears to be
> Windows based, but perhaps it's built with portable technologies.
>
> If not, we might want to pick up the basic idea of communicating through
> pictons.  In the resources section, there are several academic papers on
> this research.

I would love to see a pictogram based language used in Sugar. This would 
also help for handicapped people or of course people that do not know 
how to read and write yet. Would be nice to use pictograms in help 
sections as well.

Out of curiosity I looked once at possibilities. It seems that 
Bliss-Symbols [1] was once a standard. For 'talkers' today the ones from 
Prentke Romich [2] seems to be common - but I am not sure if those 
pictograms are available for use. Maybe someone else knows more in this 
area.

Regards,
    Simon

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss-Symbol
[2] http://www.prentrom.com