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Jordan, David K. – Language Problems & Language Planning, 2002
Describes the unicode project, which is working toward a single computer encoding scheme for all the worlds' scripts. It focuses on the special challenge of encoding Chinese characters, and uses the example of Hokkien, a Chinese dialect spoken by most people in Taiwan, to explore the problem of unorthodox, unstable, or unofficial scripts.…
Descriptors: Chinese, Dialects, Foreign Countries, Language Planning