Unicode Explained
- Unicode Explained
- Table of Contents
- Unicode Explained
- Preface
- Part I: Working with Characters
- Characters as Data
- Section 1.1. Introduction to Characters and Unicode
- Section 1.2. What s in a Character?
- Section 1.3. Variation of Writing Systems
- Section 1.4. Glyphs and Fonts
- Section 1.5. Definitions of Character Repertoires
- Section 1.6. Numbering Characters
- Section 1.7. Encoding Characters as Octet Sequences
- Section 1.8. Working with Encodings
- Section 1.9. Working with Fonts
- Section 1.10. Summaries
- Writing Characters
- Section 2.1. Method Varieties
- Section 2.2. Keyboard Variation and Settings
- Section 2.3. Virtual Keyboards
- Section 2.4. Program Commands
- Section 2.5. Character Maps
- Section 2.6. Replacements on the Fly
- Section 2.7. Special Techniques
- Section 2.8. Escape Sequences
- Section 2.9. Specialized Editors
- Section 2.10. Exercise
- Character Sets and Encodings
- Section 3.1. Good Old ASCII
- Section 3.2. ISO 8859 Codes
- Section 3.3. Windows Latin 1 and Other Windows Codes
- Section 3.4. Other 8-bit Codes
- Section 3.5. Unicode and UTF-8
- Section 3.6. Encodings for East Asian Language
- Section 3.7. Converters and Transcoding
- Section 3.8. Using Character Codes
- Part II: A Systematic Look at Unicode
- The Structure of Unicode
- Section 4.1. Design Principles
- Section 4.2. Versions of Unicode
- Section 4.3. Coding Space
- Section 4.4. Unicode Terms
- Section 4.5. Guide to the Unicode Standard
- Section 4.6. Unicode and Fonts
- Section 4.7. Criticism of Unicode
- Section 4.8. Questions and Answers
- Properties of Characters
- Section 5.1. Character Classification
- Section 5.2. An Overview of Properties
- Section 5.3. Compositions and Decompositions
- Section 5.4. Normalization
- Section 5.5. Case Properties
- Section 5.6. Collation and Sorting
- Section 5.7. Text Boundaries
- Section 5.8. Directionality
- Section 5.9. Line-Breaking Properties
- Section 5.10. Unicode Conformance Requirements
- Section 5.11. Effects on Choosing Characters
- Unicode Encodings
- Section 6.1. Unicode Encodings in General
- Section 6.2. UTF-32 and UCS-4
- Section 6.3. UTF-16 and UCS-2
- Section 6.4. UTF-8
- Section 6.5. Byte Order
- Section 6.6. Conversions Between Unicode Encodings
- Section 6.7. Other Encodings
- Section 6.8. Auto-Detecting the Encoding
- Section 6.9. Choosing an Encoding
- Part III: Advanced Unicode Topics
- Characters and Languages
- Section 7.1. Writing Systems and IT
- Section 7.2. Character Requirements of Languages
- Section 7.3. Transliteration and Transcription
- Section 7.4. Language Metadata
- Section 7.5. Languages and Fonts
- Character Usage
- Section 8.1. Basics of Character Usage
- Section 8.2. ASCII (Basic Latin)
- Section 8.3. Latin-1 Supplement (ISO 8859-1)
- Section 8.4. Other Latin Letters
- Section 8.5. Other European Alphabetic Scripts
- Section 8.6. Diacritic Marks
- Section 8.7. Letterlike Symbols
- Section 8.8. General Punctuation
- Section 8.9. Line Structure Control
- Section 8.10. Mathematical and Technical Symbols
- Section 8.11. Other Blocks
- The Character Level and Above
- Section 9.1. Levels of Text Representation and Processing
- Section 9.2. Characters and Markup
- Section 9.3. Media Types for Text
- Characters in Internet Protocols
- Section 10.1. Information About Encoding
- Section 10.2. Characters in MIME
- Section 10.3. Content Negotiation and Multilingual Sites
- Section 10.4. Characters in Protocol Headers
- Section 10.5. Characters in Domain Names and URLs
- Characters in Programming
- Section 11.1. Characters in Computer Languages
- Section 11.2. Character and String Data
- Section 11.3. The Preparedness Principle
- Section 11.4. Character Input and Output
- Section 11.5. Processing Form Data
- Section 11.6. Identifiers, Patterns, and Regular Expressions
- Section 11.7. International Components for Unicode (ICU)
- Section 11.8. Using Locales
- Tables for Writing Characters
- Section A.1. Additional Notes
- About the Author
- Colophon
- Index
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