Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Cross-linguistic issues in the design of Icons Message-ID: <1989Aug20.005726.27233@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <9268@cs.Buffalo.EDU> <1985@softway.oz> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 89 00:57:26 GMT In article <1985@softway.oz> gary@softway.oz (Friend of Elvenkind) writes: >If you are interested in creating universal icons then you are going to have >to design them with aliens from another planet in mind as your readers. I >have a feeling that for every icon useful to your own culture there will exist >an alternate culture which would not understand it. Can anyone suggest a >universal icon? I think the one for "explosion hazard" is probably fairly universal; you have to make some fairly drastic assumptions to make it incomprehensible. -- V7 /bin/mail source: 554 lines.| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1989 X.400 specs: 2200+ pages. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu