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SVG for Web Developers
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SVG for Web Developers

by Ellen Pearlman, Lorien House
December 2002
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
464 pages
8h 34m
English
Pearson
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What Is Unicode?

The world's written languages come in many scripts and styles. There are the calligraphic strokes of the Japanese and Chinese languages, the distinctive script of Hebrew, the flowing letters of Arabic, and many, many other styles with unique flourishes. Traditionally, ASCII text, consisting of 256 different characters, was the only encoding we had to represent all of these languages on the Web. Naturally, this limited character set could represent only Western European languages with any facility. Then along came Unicode, a 16-bit encoding standard that encompasses most of the written languages in the world, as well as publishing, mathematical, and technical symbols and punctuation marks. Unicode provides a unique number for ...

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