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Unicode *Characters for all the languages of the world *The standard for the new millennium *Required for XML and the Internet *The basis for modern software standards and products *The official way to implement ISO/IEC 10646 *The key to global interoperability The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0 The authoritative, technical guide to the creation of software for worldwide use.
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, word, 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 Comprehensive charts, references, glossary, and indexes: *Codes, names, appearances, aliases, cross-references, equivalences, radical-stroke ideographic index, Shift-JIS index, and more CD-ROM The comprehensive Unicode Character Database for: *Character codes, names, properties, decompositions, upper- , lower-, and title cases, normalizations, shaping International, national, and vendor character mappings for: *Western European, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Greek, Russian, and others *Windows, Macintosh, Unix, and Linux Unicode Technical Reportsthat extend the standard for: *Sorting, displaying, normalizing, linebreaking, compression, serialization, regular expressions, CR/LF, XML, case mappings, and more 0201616335B04062001
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments.
Unicode Consortium Members and Directors.
Full Members.
Current Associate Members.
Current Liaison Members.
Current Specialist Members.
Current Individual Members.
Current Members of the Board of Directors.
Figures.
Tables.
Preface.
About the Unicode Standard.
Concepts, Architecture, Conformance, and Guidelines.
Character Block Descriptions.
Charts and Index.
Appendices and Tables.
The Unicode Character Database and Technical Reports.
On the CD-ROM.
Notational Conventions.
Extended BNF.
Operators.
Resources.
Unicode Website.
Unicode Anonymous FTP Site.
Unicode Public Mailing List.
How to Contact the Unicode Consortium.
1. Introduction.
Coverage.
Standards Coverage.
New Characters.
Design Basis.
Text Handling.
Interpreting Characters.
Text Elements.
The Unicode Standard and ISO/IEC 10646.
The Unicode Consortium.
The Unicode Technical Committee.
2. General Structure.
Architectural Context.
Basic Text Processes.
Text Elements, Code Values, and Text Processes.
Text Processes and Encoding.
Unicode Design Principles.
Sixteen-Bit Character Codes.
Efficiency.
Characters, Not Glyphs.
Semantics.
Plain Text.
Logical Order.
Unification.
Dynamic Composition.
Equivalent Sequence.
Convertibility.
Encoding Forms.
UTF-16.
UTF-8.
Character Encoding Schemes.
Unicode Allocation.
Allocation Areas.
Codespace Assignment for Graphic Characters.
Nongraphic Characters, Reserved and Unassigned Codes.
Writing Direction.
Combining Characters.
Sequence of Base Characters and Diacritics.
Multiple Combining Characters.
Multiple Base Characters.
Spacing Clones of European Diacritical Marks.
Special Character and Noncharacter Values.
Byte Order Mark (BOM).
Special Noncharacter Values.
Separators.
Layout and Format Control Characters.
The Replacement Character.
Controls and Control Sequences.
Control Characters.
Representing Control Sequences.
Conforming to the Unicode Standard.
Characters Not Used in a Subset.
Referencing Versions of the Unicode Standard.
3 Conformance.
Conformance Requirements.
Byte Ordering.
Invalid Code Values.
Interpretation.
Modification.
Transformations.
Bidirectional Text.
Unicode Technical Reports.
Semantics.
Characters and Coded Representations.
Simple Properties.
Combination.
Decomposition.
Compatibility Decomposition.
Canonical Decomposition.
Surrogates.
Transformations.
Special Character Properties.
Canonical Ordering Behavior.
Combining Classes.
Canonical Ordering.
Use with Collation.
Conjoining Jamo Behavior.
Syllable Boundaries.
Standard Syllables.
Hangul Syllable Composition.
Hangul Syllable Decomposition.
Hangul Syllable Names.
Bidirectional Behavior.
Directional Formatting Codes.
Basic Display Algorithm.
Definitions.
Resolving Embedding Levels.
Reordering Resolved Levels.
Bidirectional Conformance.
Implementation Notes.
4. Character Properties.
Case — Normative.
Combining Classes — Normative.
Directionality — Normative.
Jamo Short Names — Normative.
General Category — Normative in Part.
Numeric Value — Normative.
Mirrored — Normative.
Unicode 1.0 Names.
Mathematical Property.
Letters and Other Useful Properties.
5. Implementation Guidelines.
Transcoding to Other Standards.
Issues.
Multistage Tables.
7-Bit or 8-Bit Transmission.
Mapping Table Resources.
ANSI/ISO C wchar_t.
Unknown and Missing Characters.
Unassigned and Private Use Character Codes.
Interpretable but Unrenderable Characters.
Reassigned Characters.
Handling Surrogate Pairs.
Handling Numbers.
Handling Properties.
Normalization.
Compression.
Line Handling.
Regular Expressions.
Language Information in Plain Text.
Requirements for Language Tagging.
Working with Language Tags.
Language Tags and Han Unification.
Editing and Selection.
Consistent Text Elements.
Strategies for Handling Nonspacing Marks.
Keyboard Input.
Truncation.
Rendering Nonspacing Marks.
Positioning Methods.
Locating Text Element Boundaries.
Boundary Specification.
Example Specifications.
Grapheme Boundaries.
Word Boundaries.
Line Boundaries.
Sentence Boundaries.
Random Access.
Identifiers.
Syntactic Rule.
Sorting and Searching.
Culturally Expected Sorting.
Unicode Character Equivalence.
Similar Characters.
Levels of Comparison.
Ignorable Characters.
Multiple Mappings.
Collating Out-of-Scope Characters.
Unmapped Characters.
Parameterization.
Optimizations.
Searching.
Sublinear Searching.
Case Mappings.
6. Punctuation.
General Punctuation.
Punctuation: U+0020-U+00BF.
General Punctuation: U+2000-U+206F.
CJK Symbols and Punctuation: U+3000-U+303F.
CJK Compatibility Forms: U+FE30-U+FE4F.
Small Form Variants: U+FE50-U+FE6F.
7. European Alphabetic Scripts.
Latin 160.
Letters of Basic Latin: U+0041-U+007A.
Letters of the Latin-1 Supplement: U+00C0-U+00FF.
Latin Extended-A: U+0100-U+017F.
Latin Extended-B: U+0180-U+024F.
IPA Extensions: U+0250-U+02AF.
Latin Extended Additional: U+1E00-U+1EFF.
Latin Ligatures: FB00-FB06.
Greek.
Greek: U+0370-U+03FF.
Greek Extended: U+1F00-U+1FFF.
Cyrillic.
Cyrillic: U+0400-U+04FF.
Armenian.
Armenian: U+0530-U+058F.
Georgian.
Georgian: U+10A0-U+10FF.
Runic.
Runic: U+16A0-U+16F0.
Ogham.
Ogham: U+1680-U+169F.
Modifier Letters.
Spacing Modifier Letters: U+02B0-U+02FF.
Combining Marks.
Combining Diacritical Marks: U+0300-U+036F.
Combining Marks for Symbols: U+20D0-U+20FF.
Combining Half Marks: U+FE20-U+FE2F.
8. Middle Eastern Scripts.
Hebrew.
Hebrew: U+0590-U+05FF.
Alphabetic Presentation Forms: U+FB1D-U+FB4F.
Arabic.
Arabic: U+0600-U+06FF.
Cursive Joining.
Ligatures.
Arabic Presentation Forms-A: U+FB50-U+FDFF.
Arabic Presentation Forms-B: U+FE70-U+FEFF.
Syriac.
Syriac: U+0700-U+074F.
Syriac Shaping.
Syriac Cursive Joining.
Ligatures.
Thaana.
Thaana: U+0780-U+07BF.
9. South and Southeast Asian Scripts.
Devanagari.
Devanagari: U+0900-U+097F.
Bengali.
Bengali: U+0980-U+09FF.
Gurmukhi.
Gurmukhi: U+0A00-U+0A7F.
Gujarati.
Gujarati: U+0A80-U+0AFF.
Oriya.
Oriya: U+0B00-U+0B7F.
Tamil.
Tamil: U+0B80-U+0BFF.
Telugu.
Telugu: U+0C00-U+0C7F.
Kannada.
Kannada: U+0C80-U+0CFF.
Malayalam.
Malayalam: U+0D00-U+0D7F.
Sinhala.
Sinhala: U+0D80-U+0DFF.
Thai.
Thai: U+0E00-U+0E7F.
Lao.
Lao: U+0E80-U+0EFF.
Tibetan.
Tibetan: U+0F00-U+0FBF.
Myanmar.
Myanmar: U+1000-U+109F.
Khmer.
Khmer: U+1780-U+17FF.
10. East Asian Scripts.
Han.
CJK Unified Ideographs.
CJK Compatibility Ideographs: U+F900-U+FAFF.
Kanbun: U+3190-U+319F.
CJK and KangXi Radicals: U+2E80-U+2FD5.
Ideographic Description: U+2FF0-U+2FFB.
Hiragana.
Hiragana: U+3040-U+309F.
Katakana.
Katakana: U+30A0-U+30FF.
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms: U+FF00-U+FFEF.
Hangul.
Hangul Jamo: U+1100-U+11FF.
Hangul Compatibility Jamo: U+3130-U+318F.
Hangul Syllables: U+AC00-U+D7A3.
Bopomofo.
Bopomofo: U+3100-U+312F.
Yi.
Yi: U+A000-U+A4CF.
11. Additional Scripts.
Ethiopic.
Ethiopic: U+1200-U+137F.
Cherokee.
Cherokee: U+13A0-U+13FF.
Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics.
Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics: U+1400-U+167F.
Mongolian.
Mongolian: U+1800-U+18AF.
12. Symbols.
Currency Symbols.
Currency Symbols: U+20A0-U+20CF.
Letterlike Symbols.
Letterlike Symbols: U+2100-U+214F.
Number Forms.
Number Forms: U+2150-U+218F.
Superscripts and Subscripts: U+2070-U+209F.
Mathematical Operators.
Mathematical Operators: U+2200-U+22FF.
Arrows: U+2190-U+21FF.
Technical Symbols.
Control Pictures: U+2400-U+243F.
Miscellaneous Technical: U+2300-U+23FF.
Optical Character Recognition: U+2440-U+245F.
Geometrical Symbols.
Box Drawing: U+2500-U+257F.
Block Elements: U+2580-U+259F.
Geometric Shapes: U+25A0-U+25FF.
Miscellaneous Symbols and Dingbats.
Miscellaneous Symbols: U+2600-U+26FF.
Dingbats: U+2700-U+27BF.
Enclosed and Square.
Enclosed Alphanumerics: U+2460-U+24FF.
Enclosed CJK Letters and Months: U+3200-U+32FF.
CJK Compatibility: U+3300-U+33FF.
Braille.
Braille: U+2800-U+28FF.
13. Special Areas and Format Characters.
Control Codes.
C0 Control Codes: U+0000-U+001F.
C1 Control Codes: U+0080-U+009F.
Layout Controls.
Layout Controls.
Deprecated Format Characters.
Deprecated Format Characters: U+206A-U+206F.
Surrogates Area.
Surrogates Area: U+D800-U+DFFF.
Private Use Area.
Private Use Area: U+E000-U+F8FF.
Specials.
Specials: U+FEFF, U+FFF0-U+FFFF.
14. Code Charts.
Character Names List.
Images in the Code Charts and Character Lists.
Cross References.
Case Form Mappings.
Decompositions.
Information about Languages.
Reserved Characters.
CJK Unified Ideographs.
Hangul Syllables.
15. Han Indices.
Han Radical-Stroke Index.
Shift-JIS Index.
Appendix A: Han Unification History.
Appendix B: Submitting New Characters.
Proposal Guidelines.
Requirements of Proposal Form and Process.
Interim Solutions.
Sending Proposals.
Appendix C: Relationship to ISO/IEC 10646.
History.
Unicode 1.0.
Unicode 2.0.
Unicode 3.0.
Encoding Forms in ISO/IEC 10646.
Zero Extending.
UCS Transformation Formats.
UTF-8.
UTF-16.
Synchronization of the Standards.
Identification of Features for the Unicode Standard.
Character Names.
Character Functional Specifications.
D: Changes from Unicode Version 2.0.
Versions of the Unicode Standard.
Changes from Unicode Version 2.0 to Version 2.1.
New Characters Added.
Character Semantics Changes.
Changes Affecting Conformance.
Changes from Unicode Version 2.1 to Version 3.0.
New Characters Added.
Character Semantics Changes.
Changes Affecting Conformance.
Unicode Technical Reports.
Glossary.
References.
Source Standards.
Source Dictionaries for Han Unification.
Other Sources for the Unicode Standard.
Selected Resources.
Indices.
Unicode Names Index.
General Index. 0201616335T04062001
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