An Introduction to Writing Systems:
A review of script characteristics affecting computer-based script
support and Unicode
Front matter
Objectives
Scripts addressed and Reference examples
Large character sets
CJK character sets
Chinese
Japanese
Korean
Visual characteristics
Radicals
Implementing multi-byte characters
Unification
Encoding methods
Respecting character boundaries
Inputting ideographic characters
Getting to the right character quickly
Chinese input methods
Alternative representations of characters
Summary
Complex script rendering
Definitions
Combining characters
Arabic & Hebrew short vowels
Context-sensitive placement of diacritics
Vowel signs
Coding combining characters
Precomposed vs. decomposed
Normalization
Context-sensitive glyph shaping
Word final glyph variants
Cursive script
Inputting cursive glyphs
Conjunct consonants
More character to glyph rendering
Special joining forms
Positioning variation
Ligatures
Joiner & non-joiner control characters
Summary
Text direction
Vertical text
Text flow
Rotations & shifts
Tate chu yoko
Vertical columns
Bidirectional text
Right alignment
Bidirectional ordering
Unicode bidirectional algorithm
Mirrored characters
Bidi formatting control characters
Visual selection
Directional bias in layout & graphics
Screen layout
Graphics, icons and charts
Linguistic boundaries, line breaking & justification
Word boundaries
Western
Chinese
Japanese
Korean
Thai
Line breaking
Basic alternatives
CJH line breaking rules
Wrapping Latin text in Arabic & Hebrew
Hyphenation
Justification
Basic alternatives
Justification in Chinese & Japanese
Justification in Arabic
Other typographic & implementation issues
Character size & line height
Glyph complexity
Line height & inter-line spacing
Baseline alignment
Proportional spacing
Ruby
Furigana
Bopomofo
Interlinear annotation characters
Miscellaneous
Emphasis
Kumimoji and warichu
Sorting & case conversion
Sorting
Basic Latin
Arabic
Thai
Korean
Chinese & Japanese
Multilingual text
Indexing & alphabetic ordering
Case conversion
Key sources
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