CJKV Information Processing, 2nd Edition

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Preface

only one or two of those languages). Everyone is bound to learn something new in this

chapter.

Chapter 3, Character Set Standards, describes the two classes of CJKV character set stan-

dards: coded and noncoded. Coded character set standards are further divided into two

classes: national and international. Comparisons are also drawn between CJKV character

set standards, and the coverage of Unicode is extensive.

Chapter 4, Encoding Methods, contains information on how the character set standards

described in Chapter 3 are encoded on computer systems. Emphasis is naturally given to

the encoding forms of Unicode, but information about legacy encoding methods is also

provided. Encoding is a complex but important step in representing and manipulating

human-language text in a computer. Other topics include soware for converting from

one CJKV encoding to another, and instructions on how to repair damaged CJKV text

les.

Chapter 5, Input Methods, contains information on how CJKV text is input. First I dis-

cuss CJKV input in general terms, and then describe several specic methods for enter-

ing CJKV characters on computer systems. Next, we move on to the hardware necessary

for CJKV input, specically keyboard arrays. ese range from common keyboard ar-

rays, such as the QWERTY array, to ideograph tablets containing thousands of individual

keys.

Chapter 6, Font Formats, Glyph ...