DocumentCode
1416721
Title
Toward decent text encoding
Author
Holmes, Neville
Author_Institution
Sch. of Comput., Tasmania Univ., Hobart, Tas., Australia
Volume
31
Issue
8
fYear
1998
fDate
8/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
108
Lastpage
109
Abstract
Text is composed of characters; we get different kinds of text from different kinds of characters. So character sets are very important. And if there are contending views about whether we are well served by our character set standards, these views should be exposed and discussed. It´s strange that the computing industry has for so long stuck to poor and impoverished character sets for text encoding. Now, without much public discussion or dispute, the computing industry seems to be moving to an equally poor but contrastingly obese character set called Unicode
Keywords
character sets; code standards; encoding; word processing; Unicode; character set standards; computing industry; decent text encoding; Communication industry; Computer industry; Computer science; Counting circuits; Data compression; Encoding; Natural languages; Telecommunication computing; World Wide Web; Writing;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Computer
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9162
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/2.707621
Filename
707621
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