Devanagari Letter Vocalic R (U+0090B)
decodeunicode was a research project initiated by the Department of Design at Mainz University of Applied Sciences and supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Prof. Johannes Bergerhausen asked us to participate as a project partner for the implementation of the website. decodeunicode.org is an open wiki database system that contains every sign of the Unicode character set. Users can contribute to this huge database and share their knowledge.
We supplied a technical concept and restructured our CMS “aspekt:ratio” to provide a small wiki-system for each of the 65,535 Unicode signs in the basic multilingual plane of Unicode 4.0.1.
Now everyone can provide knowledge, wisdom and anecdotes for signs and blocks, and foreign languages that use these signs. The community can upload example images of interesting uses of a particular sign, and take part in discussions about meaning and history.
Print publication “decodeunicode – Die Schriftzeichen der Welt”
© MESO / Constantin Urban
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Mathias Wollin Partner +49 69 24 000 326 mathias.wollin@meso.design mathias.wollin@meso.design +49 69 24 000 326
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Team
Mathias Wollin, Martin Schuster, Nina Dauer, Bogomir Engel, Markus Seeger