The international standard
ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000
Information technology --
Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) --
Part 1: Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane
Edition: 2 (Monolingual)
Number of pages: 992
Price code: J (80 CHF)
was published 2000-10-05 according to
http://www.iso.ch/cate/d29819.html
and you can now order via credit card your copy (either on paper or PDF
CD-ROM) from the above URL for just 80 CHF (~53 EUR, ~45 USD, ~32 GBP).
Certainly a must-have reference for anyone interested in i18n and font
issues.
The price appears to be surprisingly civilized, compared to the many
many hundred CHF that ISO usually charges for a 1000 page document. It
seems the competition of the Unicode 3.0 book had a very healthy impact
on ISO's marketing strategy here. [Unfortunately, it hasn't affected the
price of other standards: For instance, ISO 9899:1999 (Programming
languages -- C) is certainly equally prominent as UCS, has half as many
pages, but still costs 334 CHF.]
Markus
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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
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