[Sorry if you receive this multiple times; it just means that you are on all the right mailing lists ... ;-] Here is some important news for anyone interested in text processing and character sets: The new edition of the Unicode standard The Unicode Consortium: The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0, Addison-Wesley Developers Press, 2000, 1070 p., with CD-ROM, ISBN 0-201-61633-5, ~50 USD. http://www.unicode.org/unicode/uni2book/u2.html has just been published. You can ordered it now in your favourite local or online book shop. If you find yourself involved with fonts, character set conversion, file formats, text processing and rendering tools, i18n, etc., then the Unicode 3.0 book is definitely a reference that you want to have on your desk. Unicode (ISO 10646) is the Universal Character Set that is expected to replace in the not too far future all other ASCII extensions. Most other character sets are today already defined in terms of the ISO 10646 code positions of their characters. Lots of updated background information on the progressing introduction of Unicode/UTF-8 on POSIX/GNU/Linux systems is available on http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
