Stephane Bortzmeyer stephane at sources.org
Wed Feb 24 10:31:09 GMT 2021
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On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 06:37:19PM +0100, Baschdel <baschdel at disroot.org> wrote a message of 65 lines which said:
One thing I don't really like with this one is, that we use English
keywords here and that for human readable text that is intended to
be attached to a file, that could be in any language and is not very
accessible to non-English speakers.
A possible solution to that could be in unicode and (you guessed it,
didn't you?) emoji (yay!), at least those little pictures are
standardized and independent of the language(s) you speak.
In think that believing pictures are culture-independant is anillusion. The same image will be meaningful for someone, meaninglessfor an other and offensive for a third. The proper solution is to havestandard keys, and structured metadata, so the client program will beable to replace them with locally significant labels (like emailclients do with Date:, Subject:, From:, etc).
(For fun and thinking, someone actually proposed to replace HTTPstatus codes by emojis. I made a list of the proposals at<https://www.bortzmeyer.org/http-code-emoji.html>. It's in french butyou can see the list of codes and the emojis that were actuallyproposed. Good luck for finding a proper one.)