From: Deborah W. Anderson (dwanders@pacbell.net)
Date: Fri Aug 31 2001 - 10:42:38 PDT
Dear Webnet members,
For those who have questions (or problems) with multilingual
websites or are interested in Unicode, the following might be of
interest: --Deborah Anderson
The Unicode and Text Encoding Working Group
presents
Rick McGowan (Unicode Vice President) "An Overview of Unicode"
and
Ken Whistler (Unicode Technical Director and U.S. representative
to ISO WG2) "The Future of Unicode"
Thursday, Sept. 6, 5 p.m.
3401 Dwinelle Hall
Unicode (www.unicode.org) is the international character encoding
standard intended to cover all scripts of the world--ancient and
modern--for use in computer processing. With Unicode, every
character receives a unique number which remains the same for all
types of computer platforms and software programs. In the past,
various countries--and even computer companies--had their own
sets of character encodings, creating problems when passing
multilingual documents between different computers. Unicode
offers a single solution to this dilemma. It has been widely
adopted by the computer industry and is required by current
computer standards (i.e., XML).
This set of two talks will be of interest to those involved in
the computerization of multilingual documents. Rick McGowan will
present a short general description of Unicode and Ken Whistler
will follow with his thoughts on the future direction of Unicode.
A question and answer period will end the meeting.
NOTE: The flier announcing this talk has a glaring error, as
pointed out by John Hayes: the Arabic is backward. (This is an
example of the type of problem that can arise when working with
multilingual documents, particularly with documents that include
both R-to-L and L-to-R scripts. The original Arabic got
automatically reversed when pasted into the document.)
For further information, please contact Deborah Anderson
(dwanders@socrates.berkeley.edu) or Richard Cook
(rscook@socrates.berkeley.edu).
Of related interest:
Sept. 20, 5 p.m., 3401 Dwinelle Hall, Carl-Martin Bunz, Univ. of
Saarland, Saarbruecken, "Creating a Critical Edition in Digital
Form: Reconsidering the Traditional Techniques with an Example
Drawn from Avestan Philology", sponsored by the Indo-European
Lang. and Culture Working Group
and
September 10-14, Unicode Conference, San Jose, CA. Information
available at: http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc19/index.html
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