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McClure, Wanda L.; Hannah, Stan A. – Computers in Libraries, 1995
Discusses problems in using ASCII for data communications and computers and provides a historical perspective on the development of Unicode, a new universal encoding scheme. The future of Unicode is considered, implications for libraries are discussed, and a sidebar explains how computers store textual data. (LRW)
Descriptors: Coding, Computer Storage Devices, Data Conversion, Futures (of Society)