Unicode explained
Fundamentally, computers just deal with numbers. They store letters and other characters by assigning a number for each one. There are hundreds of different encoding systems for mapping characters to numbers, but Unicode promises a single mapping. Unicode enables a single software product or websit...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Beijing ; Sebastopol, California :
O'Reilly
[2006]
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| Edición: | First edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627202706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of Contents; Preface; Audience; Assumptions and Approach; Contents of This Book; Self-Assessment Test; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Enabled; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; Part I. Working with Characters; Chapter 1. Characters as Data; Introduction to Characters and Unicode; Why Unicode?; Unicode Can Be Easy; What's in a Character?; Why Do We Need to Know About Characters?; Characters as Units of Text; Characters as abstractions; Variation of appearance or different characters?; Variation in shape turned into a character difference
- Characters and "abstract characters"Characters and other units of text; Characters Versus Images; Processing of Characters; Giving Identity to Characters; Definitions of characters in standards; Annotations used to emphasize differences; The representative glyphs; The number and the Unicode name as identifiers; Unicode is more explicit; Spelling of names and the U+nnnn convention; Unicode Definitions of Characters; Definitions of Characters Elsewhere; What's in a Name?; Should We Be Strict About the Meanings of Characters?; Ambiguity Among Characters; How Do I Find My Character?
- Which Characters Does Each Language Use?Variation of Writing Systems; Glyphs and Fonts; Allowed Variation of Glyphs; Fonts and Their Properties; Font Variation Versus Characters; Fonts in Implementations; Failures to Display a Character; Font Embedding; Definitions of Character Repertoires; Formally Defined Repertoires; Practical Repertoires; Numbering Characters; Hexadecimal Notation; Numbers as Indexes; Making Use of Character Numbers; Encoding Characters as Octet Sequences; Plain Text and Other Formats for Text; Bytes and Octets; Character Encodings; Single-Octet Encodings
- Multi-Octet EncodingsThe "Character Set" Confusion; Working with Encodings; Selecting the Encoding When Saving; How Encodings Should Be Detected; Setting the Encoding Manually; Sending Unicode Email; Viewing Web Pages in Different Encodings; Common Confusion: Encoding Versus Language; Working with Fonts; Installing Additional Support; Font Support in Web Browsers; Font Substitution: a Solution and a Problem; Printer Fonts; Finding Fonts; Fonts in Web Authoring; The fallback problem; Effects of browser settings; Summaries; Summary of Definitions; Summary of Concept Levels
- The code page-specific Alt-n method
