{"id":1316,"date":"2006-09-18T18:13:06","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T22:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2006-09-18T18:14:16","modified_gmt":"2006-09-18T22:14:16","slug":"unicode-500-is-almost-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1316","title":{"rendered":"Unicode 5.0.0 is almost out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/unicode_cover_small.jpg\" alt=\"Unicode 5 Cover\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unicode.org\/versions\/Unicode5.0.0\/\">Unicode 5.0.0<\/a> is about to be released by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unicode.org\/\">Unicode Consortium<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>For those of you who don&#8217;t know about Unicode, it &#8220;<i>provides a unique number for every character<\/i>, no matter what the platform, no matter what the program, no mater what the language.&#8221; (My emphasis) In other words it replaces ASCII as the standard for character encoding to support multilingual computing across platforms.<\/p>\n<p>For more information see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unicode.org\/standard\/WhatIsUnicode.html\">What is Unicode?<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unicode.org\/onlinedat\/resources.html\">Useful Resources<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I also note that the Unicode site has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unicode.org\/history\/\">Chronology Of Unicode Version 1.0<\/a> along with information about contributors\/members over time. Xerox, for example, seems to have been a major player in the early years, but is no longer a member. I also note that there are two governments that are institutional members, India and Pakistan (they joined a year apart) and one university, Berkeley. What a strange trio of institutional members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unicode 5.0.0 is about to be released by the Unicode Consortium. For those of you who don&#8217;t know about Unicode, it &#8220;provides a unique number for every character, no matter what the platform, no matter what the program, no mater what the language.&#8221; (My emphasis) In other words it replaces ASCII as the standard for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1316\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unicode 5.0.0 is almost out<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,17,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-of-computing-and-multimedia","category-humanities-computing","category-markup-and-text-representation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}