Author : Unicode Consortium
Publisher : Addison Wesley Longman
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 46,98 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Computers
ISBN :
Version 1.1 aligns the Unicode standard with ISO/IEC 10646-1, and includes changes and additions that have been made in the process of this alignment. This work incorporates these changes and the Version 1.0 material. The accompanying CD-ROM provides the electronic files to be used by implementers.
Author : Richard Gillam
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 50,64 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780201700527
Unicode is a critical enabling technology for developers who want to internationalize applications for global environments. But, until now, developers have had to turn to standards documents for crucial information on utilizing Unicode. In Unicode Demystified, one of IBM's leading software internationalization experts covers every key aspect of Unicode development, offering practical examples and detailed guidance for integrating Unicode 3.0 into virtually any application or environment. Writing from a developer's point of view, Rich Gillam presents a systematic introduction to Unicode's goals, evolution, and key elements. Gillam illuminates the Unicode standards documents with insightful discussions of character properties, the Unicode character database, storage formats, character sequences, Unicode normalization, character encoding conversion, and more. He presents practical techniques for text processing, locating text boundaries, searching, sorting, rendering text, accepting user input, and other key development tasks. Along the way, he offers specific guidance on integrating Unicode with other technologies, including Java, JavaScript, XML, and the Web. For every developer building internationalized applications, internationalizing existing applications, or interfacing with systems that already utilize Unicode.
Author : Unicode Consortium
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
Page : 1488 pages
File Size : 19,91 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Computers
ISBN :
"Hard copy versions of the Unicode Standard have been among the most crucial and most heavily used reference books in my personal library for years." --Donald E. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming "For more than a decade, Unicode has been a foundation for many Microsoft products and technologies; Unicode Standard Version 5.0 will help us deliver important new benefits to users." --Bill Gates, chairman, Microsoft Corporation "The path W3C follows to making text on the Web truly global is Unicode." --Sir Tim Berners-Lee, kbe, Web inventor and director of the World Wide Consortium (W3C) "Without Unicode, Java wouldn't be Java, and the Internet would have a harder time connecting the people of the world." --James Gosling, Inventor of Java, Sun Microsystems, Inc. These and other software luminaries recognize that Unicode has become an indispensable tool for supporting an increasingly global marketplace (see inside for more acclaim). A comprehensive system of standards for representing alphabets throughout the world, Unicode is the basis for modern programming-- Windows, XML, Python, PERL, Mac OS, Linux--and every major search engine and browser in operation today. New to Unicode Version 5.0 A stable foundation for Unicode Security Mechanisms Property data for the Unicode Collation Algorithm and Common Locale Data Repository Improvements to the Unicode Encoding Model for UTF-8 Rigorous stability of case folding and identifiers for improved interoperability and backward compatibility--enabling additional new ways to optimize code A systematic framework for improved text processing for greater reliability--covering combining characters, Unicode strings, line breaking, and segmentation This new edition of Unicode's official reference manual has been substantially updated to document the latest revisions to the Unicode Standard, with hundreds of pages of new information. It includes major revisions to text, figures, tables, definitions, and conformance clauses, and provides clear and practical answers to common questions. For the first time, the book contains the Unicode Standard Annexes, which specify vital processes such as text normalization and identifier parsing. These improvements are so important that Version 5.0 is the basis for Microsoft's Vista generation of operating systems, and is included in upgrade plans for Google, Yahoo!, and ICU, to name but a few. This is the one book all developers using Unicode must have.
Author : Joan Aliprand
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Page : 1462 pages
File Size : 34,20 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780321185785
bull; Most detailed, comprehensive guide to the Unicode programming standard. bull; Created and authorized by the Unicode Consortium: the world's leading hardware and software vendors. bull; Accompanying CD-ROM contains the entire Unicode Character Database, plus other materials.
Author : Unicode Consortium
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 30,41 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Computers
ISBN :
The Unicode Standard is a new international standard used to encode written characters for storage in computer files or transmission over communication lines. This book is the authorized description and guide to this new standard. It is an essential reference for computer programmers and software developers who deal with multilingual text. Volume 1 covers alphabeths in countries across Europe, Africa, and the Indian subcontinent.
Author : Steven Moran
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 37,22 MB
Release : 2018-06-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 396110090X
This text is a practical guide for linguists, and programmers, who work with data in multilingual computational environments. We introduce the basic concepts needed to understand how writing systems and character encodings function, and how they work together at the intersection between the Unicode Standard and the International Phonetic Alphabet. Although these standards are often met with frustration by users, they nevertheless provide language researchers and programmers with a consistent computational architecture needed to process, publish and analyze lexical data from the world's languages. Thus we bring to light common, but not always transparent, pitfalls which researchers face when working with Unicode and IPA. Having identified and overcome these pitfalls involved in making writing systems and character encodings syntactically and semantically interoperable (to the extent that they can be), we created a suite of open-source Python and R tools to work with languages using orthography profiles that describe author- or document-specific orthographic conventions. In this cookbook we describe a formal specification of orthography profiles and provide recipes using open source tools to show how users can segment text, analyze it, identify errors, and to transform it into different written forms for comparative linguistics research. This book is a prime example of open publishing as envisioned by Language Science Press. It is open access, has accompanying open source software, has open peer review, versioning and so on. Read more in this blog post.
Author : Jukka K. Korpela
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 32,8 MB
Release : 2006-06-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 059610121X
Fundamentally, computers just deal with numbers. They store letters and other characters by assigning a number for each one. There are hundreds of different encoding systems for mapping characters to numbers, but Unicode promises a single mapping. Unicode enables a single software product or website to be targeted across multiple platforms, languages and countries without re-engineering. It's no wonder that industry giants like Apple, Hewlett-Packard, IBM andMicrosoft have all adopted Unicode. Containing everything you need to understand Unicode, this comprehensive reference from O'Reilly takes you on a detailed guide through the complex character world. For starters, it explains how to identify and classify characters - whether they're common, uncommon, or exotic. It then shows you how to type them, utilize their properties, and process character data in a robust manner. The book is broken up into three distinct parts. The first few chapters provide you with a tutorial presentation of Unicode and character data. It gives you a firm grasp of the terminology you need to reference various components, including character sets, fonts and encodings, glyphs and character repertoires. The middle section offers more detailed information about using Unicode and other character codes. It explains the principles and methods of defining character codes, describes some of the widely used codes, and presents code conversion techniques. It also discusses properties of characters, collation and sorting, line breaking rules and Unicode encodings. The final four chapters cover more advanced material, such as programming to support Unicode. You simply can't afford to be without the nuggets of valuable information detailed in Unicode Explained.
Author : Unicode Consortium
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 37,71 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Computers
ISBN :
On Unicodes characters
Author : Herong Yang
Publisher : HerongYang.com
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 34,40 MB
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Computers
ISBN :
This Unicode tutorial book is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning Unicode himself. Topics include Character Sets and Encodings; GB2312/GB18030 Character Set and Encodings; JIS X0208 Character Set and Encodings; Unicode Character Set; Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP); Unicode Transformation Formats (UTF); Surrogates and Supplementary Characters; Unicode Character Blocks; Python Support of Unicode Characters; Java Character Set and Encoding; Java Encoding Maps, Counts and Conversion. Updated in 2024 (Version v5.32) with minor changes. For latest updates and free sample chapters, visit https://www.herongyang.com/Unicode.
Author : Yannis Haralambous
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 41,82 MB
Release : 2007-09-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0596102429
The era of ASCII characters on green screens is long gone. Industry leaders such as Apple, HP, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle have adopted the Unicode Worldwide Character Standard. This book explains information on fonts and typography that software and web developers need to know to get typography and fonts to work properly.
