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== Short introduction == | |||
Unicode is an industry standard allowing computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. | |||
In text processing, Unicode takes the role of providing a unique code point — a number, not a glyph — for each character. In other words, Unicode represents a character in an abstract way and leaves the visual rendering (size, shape, font or style) to other software, such as a web browser or word processor. | |||
== Info material == | == Info material == | ||
* Slides of a talk that Dr. Romary gave on encoding of languages, locales, and characters: [[Media:Talk_laurent_1.2-Malta-BasicStandards_V2_UNICODE.pdf|PDF]] | * Slides of a talk that Dr. Romary gave on encoding of languages, locales, and characters: [[Media:Talk_laurent_1.2-Malta-BasicStandards_V2_UNICODE.pdf|PDF]] | ||
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== Tools == | == Tools == | ||
* [http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/indexd.htm?/unicode/unitest.htm Tools for Unicode on Titus (Univ. Frankfurt)] | * [http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/indexd.htm?/unicode/unitest.htm Tools for Unicode on Titus (Univ. Frankfurt)] | ||
Latest revision as of 13:34, 31 July 2008
Short introduction[edit]
Unicode is an industry standard allowing computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. In text processing, Unicode takes the role of providing a unique code point — a number, not a glyph — for each character. In other words, Unicode represents a character in an abstract way and leaves the visual rendering (size, shape, font or style) to other software, such as a web browser or word processor.
Info material[edit]
- Slides of a talk that Dr. Romary gave on encoding of languages, locales, and characters: PDF
- Current view on UTF-8 within PubMan: PDF
- Slides of Jost Gippert's talk on Unicode during the eScience Seminar at 25 October 2007: PDF
Tools[edit]