The Unicode cookbook for linguists Managing writing systems using orthography profiles

This text is a practical guide for linguists, and programmers, who work with data in multilingual computational environments. We introduce the basic concepts needed to understand how writing systems and character encodings function, and how they work together at the intersection between the Unicode...

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Main Author: Moran, Steven (auth)
Other Authors: Cysouw, Michael (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Berlin Language Science Press 2018
Series:Translation and Multilingual Natural Language Processing
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