Unicode Explained

There are several Input

Method Editors (IME) available from different sources. These

utilities combine many alternative methods of CJK character input, as illustrated in the

document http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/handson/user/IME_Paper.mspx.

If you use Microsoft products, you can download and install support to one or more

of the East Asian writing systems: Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, Japanese,

and Korean. Along with the support, you get an IME. Since the choice and installation

heavily depends on a particular system (including version of Windows) and on whether

MS Office is used or not, we just refer to information available via http://www.alan

wood.net/unicode/utilities_editors.html. Be aware that because of the number of CJK

characters, the packages are rather large.

Escape Sequences

Characters can often be written using various “escape” notations. This rather vague

term means notations that are later converted to (or just displayed as) characters ac-

cording to some specific rules. The rules are applied by a program like a text formatter

or web browser, and the rules depend on the context. They may belong to a markup,

programming, or other computer language. (Programming language–related issues will

be discussed in Chapter 11.) If different computer languages have similar conventions

in this respect, a language designer may have picked up a notation from another lan-

guage, ...