27 September 2003

Russian, Chinese and Osmanian Say you're typing on your computer in English, or French or Spanish. You'll be confident that it will be able to deal with all the characters from your alphabet. But what about Russian, or Chinese, or Arabic?  Or worse, the Osmanian language of Somalia? This is a lovely N.Y. Times article about Michael Everson, a 40-year-old Irish typographer, who has played a crucial role in developing Unicode, which might be viewed as the computer age's Rosetta stone. 7:06:54 PM