I have been trying to design glyphs for the following two sentences.
Where is a pharmacy please?
Where can I buy a meal with no gluten-containing ingredients in it please?
Although both sentences start with the word Where and both ask a question, they differ in that the second of the two sentences is needing to avoid something.
So, I have decided to use two different designs for the leftmost areas of the glyphs for the two sentences.
For the Where is a pharmacy please? sentence, the leftmost area design is like a capital D, from the Italian word Dove, meaning where.
For the Where can I buy a meal with no gluten-containing ingredients in it please? sentence, the leftmost area design is like a letter s, from the Italian word senza, meaning without.
My thinking is that these two designs can be prototypes for two sets of localizable sentences encoded as Unicode characters, the first set about finding something and the second set about finding something without something else.
William Overington
27 July 2011