Conclusion
The only source of knowledge is experience.
—Albert Einstein
You have come a long way since the beginning of this book. We started with an overview of the major types of writing systems and the languages that they are used with. Then you learned how the characters representing human languages are stored at the machine level. You have seen that a wide range of proprietary encodings evolved before the concept of Unicode was conceived as an innovative approach to overcome the Babel of codes. In Chapters 3 and 4 you learned about the SAS approach to encodings and last but not least you learned how to diagnose and troubleshoot encoding ...
