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Unicode Explained
By Jukka K. Korpela
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Publisher: O'Reilly
Pub Date: June 2006
Print ISBN-10: 0-596-10121-X
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-59-610121-3
Pages: 678
 

Table of Contents  | Index

   Unicode Explained
   Preface
    Part I:  Working with Characters
        Characters as Data
      Section 1.1.  Introduction to Characters and Unicode
      Section 1.2.  What's in a Character?
      Section 1.3.  Variation of Writing Systems
      Section 1.4.  Glyphs and Fonts
      Section 1.5.  Definitions of Character Repertoires
      Section 1.6.  Numbering Characters
      Section 1.7.  Encoding Characters as Octet Sequences
      Section 1.8.  Working with Encodings
      Section 1.9.  Working with Fonts
      Section 1.10.  Summaries
        Writing Characters
      Section 2.1.  Method Varieties
      Section 2.2.  Keyboard Variation and Settings
      Section 2.3.  Virtual Keyboards
      Section 2.4.  Program Commands
      Section 2.5.  Character Maps
      Section 2.6.  Replacements on the Fly
      Section 2.7.  Special Techniques
      Section 2.8.  Escape Sequences
      Section 2.9.  Specialized Editors
      Section 2.10.  Exercise
        Character Sets and Encodings
      Section 3.1.  Good Old ASCII
      Section 3.2.  ISO 8859 Codes
      Section 3.3.  Windows Latin 1 and Other Windows Codes
      Section 3.4.  Other 8-bit Codes
      Section 3.5.  Unicode and UTF-8
      Section 3.6.  Encodings for East Asian Language
      Section 3.7.  Converters and Transcoding
      Section 3.8.  Using Character Codes
    Part II:  A Systematic Look at Unicode
        The Structure of Unicode
      Section 4.1.  Design Principles
      Section 4.2.  Versions of Unicode
      Section 4.3.  Coding Space
      Section 4.4.  Unicode Terms
      Section 4.5.  Guide to the Unicode Standard
      Section 4.6.  Unicode and Fonts
      Section 4.7.  Criticism of Unicode
      Section 4.8.  Questions and Answers
        Properties of Characters
      Section 5.1.  Character Classification
      Section 5.2.  An Overview of Properties
      Section 5.3.  Compositions and Decompositions
      Section 5.4.  Normalization
      Section 5.5.  Case Properties
      Section 5.6.  Collation and Sorting
      Section 5.7.  Text Boundaries
      Section 5.8.  Directionality
      Section 5.9.  Line-Breaking Properties
      Section 5.10.  Unicode Conformance Requirements
      Section 5.11.  Effects on Choosing Characters
        Unicode Encodings
      Section 6.1.  Unicode Encodings in General
      Section 6.2.  UTF-32 and UCS-4
      Section 6.3.  UTF-16 and UCS-2
      Section 6.4.  UTF-8
      Section 6.5.  Byte Order
      Section 6.6.  Conversions Between Unicode Encodings
      Section 6.7.  Other Encodings
      Section 6.8.  Auto-Detecting the Encoding
      Section 6.9.  Choosing an Encoding
    Part III:  Advanced Unicode Topics
        Characters and Languages
      Section 7.1.  Writing Systems and IT
      Section 7.2.  Character Requirements of Languages
      Section 7.3.  Transliteration and Transcription
      Section 7.4.  Language Metadata
      Section 7.5.  Languages and Fonts
        Character Usage
      Section 8.1.  Basics of Character Usage
      Section 8.2.  ASCII (Basic Latin)
      Section 8.3.  Latin-1 Supplement (ISO 8859-1)
      Section 8.4.  Other Latin Letters
      Section 8.5.  Other European Alphabetic Scripts
      Section 8.6.  Diacritic Marks
      Section 8.7.  Letterlike Symbols
      Section 8.8.  General Punctuation
      Section 8.9.  Line Structure Control
      Section 8.10.  Mathematical and Technical Symbols
      Section 8.11.  Other Blocks
        The Character Level and Above
      Section 9.1.  Levels of Text Representation and Processing
      Section 9.2.  Characters and Markup
      Section 9.3.  Media Types for Text
        Characters in Internet Protocols
      Section 10.1.  Information About Encoding
      Section 10.2.  Characters in MIME
      Section 10.3.  Content Negotiation and Multilingual Sites
      Section 10.4.  Characters in Protocol Headers
      Section 10.5.  Characters in Domain Names and URLs
        Characters in Programming
      Section 11.1.  Characters in Computer Languages
      Section 11.2.  Character and String Data
      Section 11.3.  The Preparedness Principle
      Section 11.4.  Character Input and Output
      Section 11.5.  Processing Form Data
      Section 11.6.  Identifiers, Patterns, and Regular Expressions
      Section 11.7.  International Components for Unicode (ICU)
      Section 11.8.  Using Locales
      Tables for Writing Characters
      Section A.1.  Additional Notes
   About the Author
   Colophon
   Index


Unicode Explained
Unicode Explained
ISBN: 059610121X
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 139

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