Unicode provides a unique number for every character, no matter what the platform, no matter what the program, no matter what the language. Fundamentally, computers just deal with numbers. They store letters and other characters by assigning a number for each one. Before Unicode was invented, there were hundreds of different encoding systems for assigning these numbers. No single encoding could contain enough characters: for example, the European Union alone requires several different encodings to cover all its languages. Even for a single language like English no single encoding was adequate for all the letters, punctuation, and technical symbols in common use. Unicode is changing all that! The Unicode Standard has been adopted by such industry leaders as Apple, HP, IBM, JustSystem, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Sun, Sybase, Unisys and many others. Unicode is required by modern standards such as XML, Java, ECMAScript (JavaScript), LDAP, CORBA 3.0, WML, etc. It is supported in many operating systems, all modern browsers, and many other products.
| ISBN | 0321185781 | | Pages | 1504 | | ISBN13 | 9780321185785
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Pearson Education (US) | | Weight (grammes) | 3406 | | Imprint | Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc | | Published in | New Jersey | | Format | Multimedia Item | | Height (mm) | 279 | | Publication date | 27 Aug 2003 | | Width (mm) | 216 | | Library of Congress | QA268.U545 | | Spine width (mm) | 57 | | DEWEY | 003.54 | | Academic level | Tertiary education | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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| | | Acknowledgments | | |
| | | Unicode Consortium Members and Directors | | |
| | | Figures | | |
| | | Tables | | |
| | | Preface | | |
| 1 | | Introduction | | 1 |
| 2 | | General Structure | | 11 |
| 3 | | Conformance | | 55 |
| 4 | | Character Properties | | 95 |
| 5 | | Implementation Guidelines | | 107 |
| 6 | | Writing Systems and Punctuation | | 147 |
| 7 | | European Alphabetic Scripts | | 165 |
| 8 | | Middle Eastern Scripts | | 191 |
| 9 | | South Asian Scripts | | 217 |
| 10 | | Southeast Asian Scripts | | 265 |
| 11 | | East Asian Scripts | | 291 |
| 12 | | Additional Modern Scripts | | 321 |
| 13 | | Archaic Scripts | | 337 |
| 14 | | Symbols | | 349 |
| 15 | | Special Areas and Format Characters | | 383 |
| 16 | | Code Charts | | 413 |
| 17 | | Han Radical-Stroke Index | | 1189 |
| A | | Han Unification History | | 1341 |
| B | | Abstracts of Unicode Technical Reports | | 1343 |
| C | | Relationship to ISO/IEC 10646 | | 1347 |
| D | | Changes from Unicode Version 3.0 | | 1355 |
| | | G: Glossary | | 1363 |
| | | R: References | | 1385 |
| | | I: Indices | | 1407 |
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