Developing Desktop Publishing Software with Unicode
Intended Audience: |
Managers, Software Engineers, Marketers, Content Developers, Technical Writers |
Session Level: |
Beginner, Intermediate |
This paper will address issues presented by using Unicode as the
internal encoding for C/C++ implementations of Desktop Publishing
(DTP) software.
The following issues will be examined from the point of view of
DTP features:
- selecting one or more Unicode encodings for internal use
- dealing with combining characters and normalization
- dealing with multilingual and multiscript text
The talk will give an overview of Unicode support available on
Unix, Windows, and Macintosh for:
- text layout and formatting
- fonts and rendering
- input methods
- supporting text files in multiple encodings
- file formats
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