Internet & World Wide Web: How to Program, Fourth Edition

Appendix F. Unicode^®

OBJECTIVES

In this chapter you will learn:

• To become familiar with Unicode.

• The mission of the Unicode Consortium

• The design basis of Unicode.

• The three Unicode encoding forms: UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32.

• Characters and glyphs.

• The advantages and disadvantages of using Unicode.

• A brief tour of the Unicode Consortium’s website.

Outline
F.1	Introduction
F.2	Unicode Transformation Formats
F.3	Characters and Glyphs
F.4	Advantages/Disadvantages of Unicode
F.5	Unicode Consortium’s Website
F.6	Using Unicode
F.7	Character Ranges
Summary
Terminology
Self-Review Exercises
Answers to Self-Review Exercises
Exercises

Introduction

The use of inconsistent character encodings (i.e., numeric values associated with characters) when developing global software products causes ...