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by Tony Graham (Author)
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  • Paperback: 528 pages
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (22 Mar 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0764546252
  • ISBN-13: 978-0764546259
  • Product Dimensions: 21.7 x 14.1 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Whether you′re a Web developer or programmer, the Unicode Standard enables consistent handling of English text, Chinese and Japanese ideographs, Korean Hanjul characters, and most other major scripts of the world –– an increasingly important consideration in today′s multilingual global marketplace. Filled with lucid explanations and examples, Unicode: A Primer describes the development of the standard through Version 3.0 and shows you how to apply Unicode in your own projects. From a detailed account of how Unicode works to detailed advice on how to use Unicode in Web development and programming, this incisive guide is just what you need to take advantage of this increasingly important standard.

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"For developers who plan to use the Unicode Standard, this is the best companion book so far." —Rick McGowan, Unicode Consortium

Whether you′re a Web developer or a programmer, the Unicode Standard enables consistent handling of English text, Chinese and Japanese ideographs, Korean Hanjul characters, and most other major scripts of the world — an increasingly important consideration in today′s multilingual global marketplace

Filled with lucid explanations and examples, Unicode: A Primer describes the development of the standard through Version 3.0 and shows you how to apply Unicode in your own projects. From a detailed account of how Unicode works to detailed advice on how to use Unicode in Web development and programming, this incisive guide is just what you need to take advantage of this increasingly important standard.

  • Understand Unicode 3.0 and ISO/IEC 10646 basics
  • Explore Unicode structure, properties, and encodings
  • Unleash Unicode in HTML, XML, and HTTP
  • Find out how Windows, Unix, and Mac OS support Unicode
  • Use Unicode with C/C++, Perl, Java, VB, and other languages
  • Tour the character blocks in Unicode 3.0
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5.0 out of 5 stars A very good introduction to Unicode., 31 Oct 2000
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This book is a very good introduction to the Unicode standards. Indeed, it goes lot further than just being an introduction. It contains a wealth of detail and a lot of very useful references. If you want to find out about Unicode and see how it will affect your work, this is the book to get.

If you are going to be getting stuck in to some serious Unicode based development work, you will need the official standards for some of the fine detail but you should also have a copy of this book as well. In that case, I'd expect that you would refer to this book a lot more than the standard.

After a short preliminary section that talks about the need for a standard and the standardisation process the meat of the book deals in "Part II" with the detail of Unicode and, in "Part III" with some practical uses.

The author explains things like the various UTF encodings for Unicode in a clear and readable style. He also provides a very useful set of cameos of the support for Unicode in various operating systems, programming languages and applications.

There then follow a substantial set of appendices charting the Unicode codings, the character sets used and so on.

I do have one criticism of the book. Despite the appendices, there is still a lot of material in the text itself that really should also be in the appendices. I'm thinking of things such as charts of mappings and details about the standardisation process. This is a minor complaint though and the reader will easily be able to step around these sections while progressing through the book.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A good introduction to a complex topic, 28 April 2000
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Doesn't make it easy, but the gentle introduction and lead in does make it comprehensible. Well written, exact where it needs to be and clear where it can be, I think Tony has done a good job with what could have been a really dry subject!

Provides enoughto permit any user to quickly grasp enough to use Unicode sensibly without tripping over it.

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