Chapter 3. Architecture: Not Just a Pile of Code Charts
If you're used to working with ASCII or other similar encodings designed for European languages, you'll find Unicode noticeably different from those other standards. You'll also find that when you're dealing with Unicode text, various assumptions you may have made in the past about how you deal with text don't hold. If you've worked with encodings for other languages, at least some characteristics of Unicode will be familiar to you, but even then, some pieces of Unicode will be unfamiliar.
Unicode is more than just a big pile of code charts. To be sure, it includes a big pile of code charts, but Unicode goes much further. It doesn't just take a bunch of character forms and assign numbers ...
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