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

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