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A book/CD-ROM technical guide to the Unicode character encoding standard, the international character code for information processing that includes all major scripts of the world and is the foundation for development of software for worldwide use. Early chapters cover information engineers need to produce a conforming implementation. Later chapters give basic information about each script and discuss specific characters. Includes reference and background information, plus a glossary. The CD-ROM contains a Unicode Character Database, technical reports, and international, national, and vendor character mappings for various languages. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Detailed specifications for Unicode: structure, conformance encoding forms, character properties, semantics, equivalence, combining characters, logical ordering, conversion, allocation, big/little endian usage, Korean syllable formation, control characters, case mappings, numeric values, mathematical properties, writing directions (Arabic, Japanese, English, and so on), character shaping (Arabic, Devanagari, Tamil, and so on).Expanded implementation guidelines by experts in global software design: normalization, sorting and searching, case mapping, compression, language tagging, boundaries (characters, words, lines, and sentences), rendering of non-spacing marks, transcoding to other character sets, handling unknown characters, surrogate pairs, numbers, editing and selection, keyboard input, and more.
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