ERIC Number: EJ506953
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1995
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Communicating Globally: The Advent of Unicode.
McClure, Wanda L.; Hannah, Stan A.
Computers in Libraries, v15 n5 p19-24 May 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), Global Approach, Libraries, Problems
Publication Type: Historical Materials; Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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