Options for Presentation of Multilingual Text: Use of the Unicode Standard.

Erickson, Janet C.; Sepehri, Abazar

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Publication Date: 1997

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Options for Presentation of Multilingual Text: Use of the Unicode Standard.

Erickson, Janet C.; Sepehri, Abazar

Library Hi Tech, v15 n3-4 p172-88 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 glossary is appended. (54 references) (LRW)

Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Coding, Data Conversion, Glossaries, Higher Education, Humanities, Multilingual Materials, Non Roman Scripts, Standards

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Language: English

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