Unicode explained / Jukka K. Korpela.
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...
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Working with characters. Characters as data
- Writing characters
- Character sets and encodings. Part II. A systemic look at unicode. The structure of unicode
- Properties of characters
- Unicode encodings. Part III. Advanced unicode topics. Characters and languages
- Character usage
- The character level and above
- Characters in internet protocols
- Characters in programming.