Title :
Study of Unicode specifications and their implementation in Arabic script languages by designing a multilingual Unicode editor
Author :
Memon, Aslam Parvez
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Comput. Sci., Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Karachi, Pakistan
Abstract :
This study investigates the Unicode specifications and the possibilities for their implementation in Arabic script languages in general and Pakistani local languages specifically, by designing an editor. Unicode provides a unique number for every character, no matter what the platform, no matter what the program, no matter what the language. The author has designed an editor titled "A Multilingual Unicode Editor" which can be used for numerous applications such as sending/receiving emails, web page development and chatting etc. The Unicode Organization was founded in 1991 to design and promote a universal, uniform, unique, unambiguous worldwide character-encoding standard. The Unicode Organization released its first version of standard, Unicode Standard 1.0 in the same year. The current version of the Unicode Standard contains 49,194 distinct coded characters. These characters cover principal written languages, and symbol systems of the world. Formally the printed books and online documents that extend the specification and informative content define the Unicode standard
Keywords :
character sets; codes; natural languages; standards; word processing; Arabic Script Languages; Multilingual Unicode Editor; Pakistani Local Languages; Unicode specifications; chatting; online documents; printed books; web page development; worldwide character-encoding standard; Code standards; Computer science; Electronic mail; Encoding; IEC standards; ISO standards; Natural languages; Software standards; Standards organizations; Web pages;
Conference_Titel :
Multi Topic Conference, 2001. IEEE INMIC 2001. Technology for the 21st Century. Proceedings. IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Lahore
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7406-1
DOI :
10.1109/INMIC.2001.995342