The Unicode Standard Version 3.0: Version 3.0: Worldwide Character Encoding Book

Unicode Characters for all the languages of the world The standard for the new millennium Required for XML and the Internet The basis for modern software standards and products The official way to implement ISO/IEC 10646 The key to global interoperability The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0 The authoritative technical guide to the creation of software for worldwide use. * Detailed specifications for Unicode: * Structure, conformance, encoding forms, character properties, semantics, equivalence, combining characters, logical ordering, conversion, allocation, big/little endian usage, Korean syllables formation, control characters, case mappings, numeric values, mathematical properties, writing directions (Arabic, Japanese, English,...), character shaping (Arabic, Devanagari, Tamil,...),... * Expanded implementation guidelines by experts in global software design: * Normalization, sorting and searching, case mapping, compression, language tagging, boundaries (characters, word, lines, and sentences), rendering of non-spacing marks, transcoding to other character sets, handling unknown characters, surrogate pairs, numbers, editing and selection, keyboard input,... * Comprehensive charts, references, glossary, and indices: * Codes, names, appearances, aliases, cross-references, equivalences, radical-stroke ideographic index, Shift-JIS index,... CD-ROM * The comprehensive Unicode Character Database for: * character codes, names, properties, decompositions, upper/lower/titlecases, normalizations, shaping,... * International, national, and vendor character mappings for: * Western European, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Greek, Russian,... * Windows, Macintosh, Unix, Linux,... * Unicode Technical Reports, extending the standard for: * Sorting, displaying, normalizing, linebreaking, compression, serialization, regular expressions, CR/LF, XML, case mappings,...Read More