Product Description: "Hard copy versions of the Unicode Standard have been among the most crucial and most heavily used reference books in my personal library for years."--Donald E. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming"For more than a decade, Unicode has been a foundation for many Microsoft products and technologies; Unicode Standard Version 5...read more

Product Description: Unicode provides a unique number for every character, no matter what the platform, no matter what the program, no matter what the language. Fundamentally, computers just deal with numbers. They store letters and other characters by assigning a number for each one...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Version 3.0 now available! Modern software must function all around the world. This demands a single character set that works everywhere. The Unicode Standard is the proven answer, implemented in software for the world market: Windows NT and Windows 95, AIX, NetWare 4...read more

The authorized description and guide to this new standard. Volume two is devoted to character codes for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean ideographs, and provides an essential reference for people developing software for the rapidly growing Asian markets. Everyone developing software for the international markets will need this book.