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Peer reviewedErickson, Janet C.; Sepehri, Abazar – Library Hi Tech, 1997
Explains the development of standardized coding for digital text, especially for multilingual text, that has culminated in the Unicode standard. Topics include the University of Michigan's Humanities Text Initiative (HTI); a history of character sets; transliteration; non-Roman languages; fonts; and barriers to adoption of the Unicode standard. A…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Coding, Data Conversion, Glossaries
Peer reviewedLazinger, Susan S.; Levi, Judith – Library Hi Tech, 1996
Describes software solutions in the recent efforts of ALEPH, Israel's research library network, to create an online catalog system that could support the Roman, Hebrew, Arabic, and Cyrillic alphabets. The result is a multiscript, bidirectional system that uses soft fonts. (BEW)
Descriptors: Computer Software Development, Computer System Design, Electronic Text, Library Catalogs
