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Toward Decent Text Encoding
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posted on 2023-05-25, 21:54 authored by Holmes, WNThis essay looks at the history of digital text encoding, from the early and very limited simple alphabetic encoding to the more recent gargantuan Unicode, and argues that each writing system should be separately encoded, with various languages being optimally and powerfully catered for under each encoding system.
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ComputerVolume
31Issue
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8Pagination
108-109ISSN
0018-9162Publication status
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