Unicode 4.1 Tutorial - Fundamental Specifications
Asmus Freytag, President, ASMUS, Inc., USA
Intended Audience: N/A
Session Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
Part II of the Unicode 4.1 Tutorial builds on the concepts introduced in Part I and systematically presents the details of fundamental specifications that are part of the Unicode Standard.
- What is the organization of the Unicode code space?
- What principles are used to allocate and unify characters?
- What is unification?
- What is a Unicode encoding form?
- What is the actual definition of UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32?
- What is a byte order mark?
- Which encoding form should I select?
- What are Unicode Character Properties?
- What is the relationship between Unicode and plain text?
- What are combining characters?
- When are code sequences equivalent?
- What are format characters?
- What types of code points exist?
- Where are all the pieces of the Unicode Standard?
Part II of the Unicode tutorial is recommended for anyone interested in a systematic overview of the key aspects of the standard. Detailed technical or programming experience is not required.
Suggested for Beginners/Intermediate/Advanced
Requirements: Unicode 4.1 Tutorial Part I or similar general background.