December 2008
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
33h 22m
English
Content preview from CJKV Information Processing, 2nd Edition
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Chapter 3: Character Set Standards
More information regarding these character classes and typographic features will be
presented in Chapter 7.
Vendors that provide professional publishing systems commonly build or supply fonts
based on character sets for information interchange, but heavily supplement such fonts
with glyphs for the character classes just listed, usually at unique code points. Why do
these character sets include characters for information interchange? Most documents that
are eventually published originate on systems that process character sets for information
interchange, so that is why character sets for professional publishing must use those
characters as their base.
Examples of character sets for professional publishing include Fujitsu’s JEF, Morisawa’s
MOR-CODE II, and Shaken’s SK78. e major disadvantage of these and other character
sets for professional publishing is that they are usually restricted to proprietary hardware
or soware, and thus require a major investment.
Future Trends and Predictions
ere are two specic issues that I’d like to cover that represent future trends and are ef-
fectively predictions based on observations I have made over the years. e shorter-term
issue is today’s trend to use of emoji, which are character-like pictures that convey mean-
ings, including subtle emotional states. ese are broadly used in ...
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