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Books : Computers & Internet : Programming : APIs & Operating Environments : Unicode
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This handy little book offers programmers a complete overview of the syntax and semantics of regular expressions that are at the heart of every text-processing application. Ideal as a quick reference, Regular Expression Pocket Reference covers the regular expression APIs for Perl 5.8, Ruby (including some upcoming 1.9 features), Java, PHP, .NET and C#, Python, vi, JavaScript, and the PCRE regular expression libraries.
This concise and easy-to-use reference puts a very powerful tool for manipulating text and data right at your fingertips. Composed of a mixture of symbols and text, regular expressions can be an outlet for creativity, for brilliant programming, and for the elegant solution. Regular Expression Pocket Reference offers an introduction to regular expressions, pattern matching, metacharacters, modes and constructs, and then provides separate sections for each of the language APIs, with complete regex listings including:- Supported metacharacters for each language API
- Regular expression classes and interfaces for Ruby, Java, .NET, and C#
- Regular expression operators for Perl 5.8
- Regular expression module objects and functions for Python
- Pattern-matching functions for PHP and the vi editor
- Pattern-matching methods and objects for JavaScript
- Unicode Support for each of the languages
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Fundamentally, computers just deal with numbers. They store letters and other characters by assigning a number for each one. There are hundreds of different encoding systems for mapping characters to numbers, but Unicode promises a single mapping. Unicode enables a single software product or website to be targeted across multiple platforms, languages and countries without re-engineering. It's no wonder that industry giants like Apple, Hewlett-Packard, IBM andMicrosoft have all adopted Unicode.
Containing everything you need to understand Unicode, this comprehensive reference from O'Reilly takes you on a detailed guide through the complex character world. For starters, it explains how to identify and classify characters - whether they're common, uncommon, or exotic. It then shows you how to type them, utilize their properties, and process character data in a robust manner.
The book is broken up into three distinct parts. The first few chapters provide you with a tutorial presentation of Unicode and character data. It gives you a firm grasp of the terminology you need to reference various components, including character sets, fonts and encodings, glyphs and character repertoires.
The middle section offers more detailed information about using Unicode and other character codes. It explains the principles and methods of defining character codes, describes some of the widely used codes, and presents code conversion techniques. It also discusses properties of characters, collation and sorting, line breaking rules and Unicode encodings. The final four chapters cover more advanced material, such as programming to support Unicode.
You simply can't afford to be without the nuggets of valuable information detailed in Unicode Explained.
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This reference is a fascinating and complete guide to using fonts and typography on the Web and across a variety of operating systems and application software. Fonts & Encodings shows you how to take full advantage of the incredible number of typographic options available, with advanced material that covers everything from designing glyphs to developing software that creates and processes fonts.
The era of ASCII characters on green screens is long gone, and industry leaders such as Apple, HP, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle have adopted the Unicode Worldwide Character Standard. Yet, many software applications and web sites still use a host of standards, including PostScript, TrueType, TeX/Omega, SVG, Fontlab, FontForge, Metafont, Panose, and OpenType. This book explores each option in depth, and provides background behind the processes that comprise today's "digital space for writing":- Part I introduces Unicode, with a brief history of codes and encodings including ASCII. Learn about the morass of the data that accompanies each Unicode character, and how Unicode deals with normalization, the bidirectional algorithm, and the handling of East Asian characters.
- Part II discusses font management, including installation, tools for activation/deactivation, and font choices for three different systems: Windows, the Mac OS, and the X Window System (Unix).
- Part III deals with the technical use of fonts in two specific cases: the TeX typesetting system (and its successor, W, which the author co-developed) and web pages.
- Part IV describes methods for classifying fonts: Vox, Alessandrini, and Panose-1, which is used by Windows and the CSS standard. Learn about existing tools for creating (or modifying) fonts, including FontLab and FontForge, and become familiar with OpenType properties and AAT fonts.
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"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 5.0 will help us deliver important new benefits to users."
--Bill Gates, chairman, Microsoft Corporation
"The path W3C follows to making text on the Web truly global is Unicode."
--Sir Tim Berners-Lee, kbe, Web inventor and director of the World Wide Consortium (W3C)
"Without Unicode, Java wouldn't be Java, and the Internet would have a harder time connecting the people of the world."
--James Gosling, Inventor of Java, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
These and other software luminaries recognize that Unicode has become an indispensable tool for supporting an increasingly global marketplace (see inside for more acclaim). A comprehensive system of standards for representing alphabets throughout the world, Unicode is the basis for modern programming-- Windows, XML, Python, PERL, Mac OS, Linux--and every major search engine and browser in operation today.
New to Unicode Version 5.0
- A stable foundation for Unicode Security Mechanisms
- Property data for the Unicode Collation Algorithm and Common Locale Data Repository
- Improvements to the Unicode Encoding Model for UTF-8
- Rigorous stability of case folding and identifiers for improved interoperability and backward compatibility--enabling additional new ways to optimize code
- A systematic framework for improved text processing for greater reliability--covering combining characters, Unicode strings, line breaking, and segmentation
This new edition of Unicode's official reference manual has been substantially updated to document the latest revisions to the Unicode Standard, with hundreds of pages of new information. It includes major revisions to text, figures, tables, definitions, and conformance clauses, and provides clear and practical answers to common questions. For the first time, the book contains the Unicode Standard Annexes, which specify vital processes such as text normalization and identifier parsing.
These improvements are so important that Version 5.0 is the basis for Microsoft's Vista generation of operating systems, and is included in upgrade plans for Google, Yahoo!, and ICU, to name but a few.
This is the one book all developers using Unicode must have.
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Unicode Characters for all the languages of the world The standard for the new millennium Required for XML and the Internet The basis for modern software standards and products The official way to implement ISO/IEC 10646 The key to global interoperabilityThe Unicode Standard, Version 3.0
The authoritative technical guide to the creation of software for worldwide use.
* Detailed specifications for Unicode: * Structure, conformance, encoding forms, character properties, semantics, equivalence, combining characters, logical ordering, conversion, allocation, big/little endian usage, Korean syllables formation, control characters, case mappings, numeric values, mathematical properties, writing directions (Arabic, Japanese, English,...), character shaping (Arabic, Devanagari, Tamil,...),... * Expanded implementation guidelines by experts in global software design: * Normalization, sorting and searching, case mapping, compression, language tagging, boundaries (characters, word, lines, and sentences), rendering of non-spacing marks, transcoding to other character sets, handling unknown characters, surrogate pairs, numbers, editing and selection, keyboard input,... * Comprehensive charts, references, glossary, and indices: * Codes, names, appearances, aliases, cross-references, equivalences, radical-stroke ideographic index, Shift-JIS index,...
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* The comprehensive Unicode Character Database for: * character codes, names, properties, decompositions, upper/lower/titlecases, normalizations, shaping,... * International, national, and vendor character mappings for: * Western European, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Greek, Russian,... * Windows, Macintosh, Unix, Linux,... * Unicode Technical Reports, extending the standard for: * Sorting, displaying, normalizing, linebreaking, compression, serialization, regular expressions, CR/LF, XML, case mappings,...
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Offers an in-depth introduction to the encoding standard and provides the tools and techniques necessary to create today's globally interoperable software systems. Presents strategies for implementing various aspects of the standard. Softcover.
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Unicode is a standard for electronically encoding characters using only two bytes of information. Use of this standard allows for a unique representation of the characters of all languages and dialects--worldwide. Anyone designing or developing a software product for worldwide use needs this book. The CD provides the electronic files to be used by implementers.
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Whether you are dealing with a new installation, an upgrade or a system consolidation - migration to the Unicode standard can lead to many questions, all of which are competently answered in this comprehensive guide. After an introduction to the basics of Unicode and to the support of languages in the SAP system, you'll uncover the steps required to carry out a Unicode installation, a combined upgrade, or conversion projects - depending on your current release (SAP R/3 4.6C and earlier, SAP R/3 Enterprise, SAP ERP 2004/2005). The authors focus on the ABAP Enabling of existing custom developments, the customization of interfaces, and the description of native SAP Unicode tools. In addition, readers learn about the country-specific prerequisites for which Unicode implementation is mandatory. An entire chapter is devoted to customer-specific translations. Plus, numerous codepage tables, useful notes, and volumes of exclusive tips and tricks that cannot be found elsewhere further complement this extensive reference. Highlights Include: Language Support in the SAP System: Concepts, Technologies, Solution Approaches Unicode with SAP: Basics, Data Exchange, Formats Unicode Conversion: System Consolidation, Data Export and Import, Frontend and Printer Solutions Upgrade Projects: Release-Related Process and Best Practices ABAP and Unicode: Syntax Changes, Data Types, Tools Communication and Interfaces: Homogeneous vs. Inhomogeneous, RFC, File Transfer Languages and Translations: Language Installation, Tools, Objects, Customizing
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Whether you're a Web developer or programmer, the Unicode Standard enables consistent handling of English text, Chinese and Japanese ideographs, Korean Hanjul characters, and most other major scripts of the world -- an increasingly important consideration in today's multilingual global marketplace. Filled with lucid explanations and examples, Unicode: A Primer describes the development of the standard through Version 3.0 and shows you how to apply Unicode in your own projects. From a detailed account of how Unicode works to detailed advice on how to use Unicode in Web development and programming, this incisive guide is just what you need to take advantage of this increasingly important standard.
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