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Unicode Demystified: A Practical Programmer's Guide to the Encoding Standard View Larger Image | Richard Gillam
Addison-Wesley, Paperback, Published September 2002, 853 pages, ISBN 0201700522 | List Price: $54.99
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Unicode is a critical enabling technology for developers who want to internationalize
applications for global environments. But, until now, developers have had to
turn to standards documents for crucial information on utilizing Unicode. In
Unicode Demystified, one of IBM's leading software internationalization
experts covers every key aspect of Unicode development, offering practical examples
and detailed guidance for integrating Unicode 3.0 into virtually any application
or environment.
KEY TOPICS:Writing from a developer's point of view, Rich Gillam presents
a systematic introduction to Unicode's goals, evolution, and key elements. Gillam
illuminates the Unicode standards documents with insightful discussions of character
properties, the Unicode character database, storage formats, character sequences,
Unicode normalization, character encoding conversion, and more. He presents
practical techniques for text processing, locating text boundaries, searching,
sorting, rendering text, accepting user input, and other key development tasks.
Along the way, he offers specific guidance on integrating Unicode with other
technologies, including Java, JavaScript, XML, and the Web.
MARKET:For every developer building internationalized applications,
internationalizing existing applications, or interfacing with systems that already
utilize Unicode.
Table of Contents
Preface.
I. UNICODE IN ESSENCE: AN ARCHITECTURAL OVERVIEW OF THE UNICODE STANDARD.
1. Language, Computers, and Unicode.
2. Brief History of Character Encoding.
3. Architecture: Not Just a Pile of Code Charts.
4. Combining Character Sequences and Unicode Normalization.
5. Character Properties and the Unicode Character Database.
6. Unicode Storage and Serialization Formats.
II. UNICODE IN DEPTH: A GUIDED TOUR OF THE CHARACTER REPERTOIRE.
7. Scripts of Europe.
8. Scripts of The Middle East.
9. Scripts of India and Southeast Asia.
10. Scripts of East Asia.
11. Scripts from Other Parts of the World.
12. Numbers, Punctuation, Symbols, and Specials.
III. UNICODE IN ACTION: IMPLEMENTING AND USING THE UNICODE STANDARD.
13. Techniques and Data Structures for Handling Unicode Text.
14. Conversions and Transformations.
15. Searching and Sorting.
16. Rendering and Editing.
17. Unicode and Other Technologies.
Glossary.
Bibliography.
Index.
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