About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 62. Chapters: Unicode, String, UTF-8, Collation, Character, UTF-16/UCS-2, Bi-directional text, 8-bit clean, Graphic character, Code page, Mojibake, UTF-EBCDIC, Perso-Arabic Script Code for Information Interchange, GOST 10859, Windows Glyph List 4, Collating sequence, Korean language and computers, Slate and stylus, Grade 2 braille, Unicode and HTML for the Hebrew alphabet, UTF-7, MIK Code page, Variable-width encoding, Varicode, Six-bit character code, Hebrew Braille, VNI, Wide character, World Glyph Set, Binary-to-text encoding, CCSID, DEC Radix-50, Whitespace character, Digraphs and trigraphs, UTF-32/UCS-4, Iran System encoding standard, DBCS, UTF-9 and UTF-18, Internal code, Bush hid the facts, CESU-8, Alt code, Vietnamese Quoted-Readable, Z-variant, Code point, Bucky bit, ALCOR, Charset detection, Special Characters, SBCS, Chinese Character Code for Information Interchange, Cork encoding, Right-to-left, Cmap. Excerpt: Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. Developed in conjunction with the Universal Character Set standard and published in book form as The Unicode Standard, the latest version of Unicode consists of a repertoire of more than 109,000 characters covering 93 scripts, a set of code charts for visual reference, an encoding methodology and set of standard character encodings, an enumeration of character properties such as upper and lower case, a set of reference data computer files, and a number of related items, such as character properties, rules for normalization, decomposition, collation, rendering, and bidirectional display order (for the correct display of text containing both right-to-left scripts, such as Arabic and Hebrew, and left-to-right scripts). As of 2011, the most recent major revision ...
