Globalization Insider

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GILT: Globalization, Internationalization, Localization, Translation • Pierre Cadieux, Technology Editor, LISA Newsletter & Bert Esselink, Chief Editor, Language International
New Character Sets for Asia (premium) • Ken Lunde, Adobe Systems
LTC Organiser (premium) • Adriane Rinsche, Language Technology Centre
News from the Terminology SIG • Kara Warburton, IBM

New Character Sets for Asia

Ken Lunde, Adobe Systems

A truly magnificent thing has happened. The software industry has finally made the move to Unicode, and all major operating system, application, and font developers have embraced this standard. With such wonderful news, what else is there to consider in terms of characterset standards and their encodings? In a word, plenty! While it is true that other emerging character set standards often induce a change to Unicode for compatibility purposes (this is considered a good thing), they often pose other issues, either legal- or business-related.

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