Re:Unicode Proposal – Textile Care Symbols
by throw0101a on Friday April 23, 2021 @07:41AM
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> In case someone still finds this thread: standards my ass.
The standard is there. If people decide not to use it that's on them. Just because the US decides not to use the SI units, that says less about the metric system and more about the US.
Most countries in the EU (AFAICT) do use the ISO standard.
The fact that one country does not use it is not an argument that that standard is not a standard.
Re:Unicode Proposal – Textile Care Symbols
by TeMPOraL on Friday April 23, 2021 @05:32PM
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> The fact that one country does not use it is not an argument that that standard is not a standard.
My point was slightly different. Poland does use the standard, the same standard. It just so happens that the standard has "B" variants for several icons.
I guess it's sort of an improvement that I only need to know 1.5 sets of icons instead of 3-5 different ones.
In case someone still finds this thread: standards my ass. Guess what, in Poland we have different ISO 3758:2012 symbols. Compare [0] with [1]. As it turns out, some of the symbols have "A" and "B" variant, and we use the "B" one for some reason.
Also I couldn't figure out WTF is "drip drying", and how "drip line drying" and "drip flat drying" differ from "line drying" and "flat drying". The Internet is very unhelpful here - every single article I saw assumed you already know what it means. Fortunately, [1] contained a note that the methods of drying are defined in ISO 6330:2000, and as luck would have it, I saw a copy of ISO 6330:2000 fall out of the back of a truck. Taking a quick peek, I now know that "drip line/flat drying" means...
...just "line/flat drying", except you set your washing machine to not do the final spinning cycle.
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- [0] - EN ISO 3758:2012 :: http://labritex.com/wp-content/uploads/ISO-3758-Care-symbols...
- [1] - PN-EN ISO 3758:2012 :: https://www.eurowolle.pl/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/piktogra...