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Linux Unicode programming
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Unicode definition
Unicode transformations
UTF support
C support for Unicode
Summary
Resources
About the author
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How to incorporate and utilize Unicode for foreign language support
Thomas W. Burger (twburger@bigfoot.com)
Owner, Thomas Wolfgang Burger Consulting
August 2001
A multi-byte character representation system for computers, Unicode provides for the
encoding and exchanging of all of the text of the world’s languages. This article
explains the importance of international language support and the concepts of
designing and incorporating Unicode support in Linux applications.
Unicode is not just a programming tool, but also a political and economic tool. Applications
that do not incorporate world language support can often be used only by individuals who
read and write a language supported by ASCII. This puts computer technology based on
ASCII out of reach of most of the world’s people. Unicode allows programs to utilize any of
the world’s character sets…