Appendix E. Unicode

E. Unicode^®

Objectives

In this appendix you will learn:

• The mission of the Unicode Consortium.

• The design basis of Unicode.

• The three Unicode encoding forms: UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32.

• Characters and glyphs.

• The advantages and disadvantages of using Unicode.

• A brief tour of the Unicode Consortium's Web site.

Outline

E.1 Introduction

E.2 Unicode Transformation Formats

E.3 Characters and Glyphs

E.4 Advantages/Disadvantages of Unicode

E.5 Unicode Consortium's Web Site

E.6 Using Unicode

E.7 Character Ranges