Coming down with a Code
"To meet the requirements of global communication, every modern operating system facilitates the access to a great variety of scripts: Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, Chinese, Braille, to name just a few. There's also a huge number of special characters such as dingbats, copyright characters, currency symbols, mathematical characters and punctuation. Just the pre-installed system fonts on a PC confront the user with thousands of unfamiliar characters. Many users stand helpless in the face of such vast numbers of characters, they simply lack the knowledge about the various meanings and typographically correct use of all those 'new' characters.
The wondrous multiplication of characters in the computer in the last couple of years went mainly unnoticed. The technical background of this silent typographic revolution is called Unicode. This character encoding standard is already established as a world standard and it encodes over 50.000 characters on its first plane that is already accessible. Alas, the communication media of the non-profit organisation Unicode Consortium are directed exclusively at IT-specialists for multilingual text processing. And as important as the published code charts and technical descriptions are for programmers, they are unsuitable as a guidance for the average user.
decodeunicode.org is an independent platform for digital type culture, conceived and developed under the lead of professor Johannes Bergerhausen in cooperation with the designer Siri Poarangan at the University of Applied Sciences Mainz. [...] The project [...] has the objectives of creating a basis for fundamental typographic research and facilitating a textual approach to the characters of the world for all computer users. That way, expert knowledge can be systematically collected and made accessible to the general public. [It is also] an open science project that specifically builds upon the participation of online users. The submission of information follows the WIKI-principle that’s been used successfully for years by the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia."
And it will help you find out what an 'ogonek' is.
The wondrous multiplication of characters in the computer in the last couple of years went mainly unnoticed. The technical background of this silent typographic revolution is called Unicode. This character encoding standard is already established as a world standard and it encodes over 50.000 characters on its first plane that is already accessible. Alas, the communication media of the non-profit organisation Unicode Consortium are directed exclusively at IT-specialists for multilingual text processing. And as important as the published code charts and technical descriptions are for programmers, they are unsuitable as a guidance for the average user.
decodeunicode.org is an independent platform for digital type culture, conceived and developed under the lead of professor Johannes Bergerhausen in cooperation with the designer Siri Poarangan at the University of Applied Sciences Mainz. [...] The project [...] has the objectives of creating a basis for fundamental typographic research and facilitating a textual approach to the characters of the world for all computer users. That way, expert knowledge can be systematically collected and made accessible to the general public. [It is also] an open science project that specifically builds upon the participation of online users. The submission of information follows the WIKI-principle that’s been used successfully for years by the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia."
And it will help you find out what an 'ogonek' is.
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