December 2008
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the title of ASCII (ocially designated ANSI X3.4-1986) is Coded Character Set—7-bit
American National Standard Code for Information Interchange. Information interchange
can be dened as the process of moving data from one hardware or soware conguration
to another with little or no loss of information. Of course, no loss of information is better
than little loss.
Unicode, although it provides a vast number of characters, was still designed with
information interchange in mind—building a superset based on national standards, which
were designed for information interchange, still results in a character set for information
interchange. is is not a bad thing. In fact, it is a very good thing. Unicode eectively
levels the playing eld in terms of how characters are represented, and also serves to
simplify and ease soware development.
e vast majority of today’s CJKV fonts include glyphs for characters from character set
standards designed for information interchange. While the glyphs that these fonts provide
are sucient for most users’ needs, they are far from ideal for professional or commercial
publishing.
Character Sets for Professional and Commercial Publishing
e ASCII character set, as was discussed earlier in this chapter, consists of 94 printable
characters. ISO 8859-1:1998, the most common extension t ...
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