UNICODE RESOURCES

The most important resource is the practical one:  this is where you can download the unicode font used in e-Asia ebooks --   Arial Unicode MS.

For the official explanation of the Unicode standard see What is Unicode?

Another interesting and useful web resource is:  Unicode and Multilingual Support in HTML, Fonts, Web Browsers and Other Applications

 



WHY UNICODE?

Unicode is an international standard character set that includes the characters for virtualy al human languages. This standard set of character encodings is particularly important for the languages of East Asia and all other languages that use a non-roman alphabet. Aside form eliminating the computer encoding tower of Babel, UNICODE allows a single document to contain characters from different languages. Without unicode it is extremely difficult to create multilingual documents; for example, unicode makes it easy to mix Chinese and English and Japanese all within in a single document ro web page.

Unicode is generally regarded as a standard for ebooks built on the open ebook principle.