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class="person_name">Holmes, Neville</span> (1998) <xhtml:em>Sortemic Text Encoding.</xhtml:em> Discussion Paper. 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(Unpublished)</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"></p><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><tr><td valign="top" style="text-align:center"><a onmouseover="EPJS_ShowPreview( event, 'doc_preview_2028' );" href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1564/1/ste.pdf" onmouseout="EPJS_HidePreview( event, 'doc_preview_2028' );"><img alt="[img]" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png" class="ep_doc_icon" border="0" /></a><div class="ep_preview" id="doc_preview_2028"><table><tr><td><img alt="" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1564/thumbnails/1/preview.png" class="ep_preview_image" border="0" /><div class="ep_preview_title">Preview</div></td></tr></table></div></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1564/1/ste.pdf"><span class="ep_document_citation">PDF</span></a> - Requires a PDF viewer<br />160Kb</td></tr></table><div class="not_ep_block"><h2>Abstract</h2><p style="padding-bottom: 16px; text-align: left; margin: 1em auto 0em auto">Introduction: In a recent Computer column I deplored the continuing use in the telecommunications and computing industry of the ASCII and EBCDIC character sets, and condemned the incipient use of the Unicode scheme for text encoding, suggesting that something simpler was required to support, for example, simple interlingual text equipment applied to tasks such as e-mail. In the following I describe and advocate a basis for uniform text encoding systems, and possibly only one is needed, which will support digital use of all the world's writing systems both for encoding of text by people, and for practical digital interlingual storage and exchange of text, such as is sorely needed for Internet. </p></div><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" cellpadding="3" class="not_ep_block" border="0"><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Item Type:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Report (Discussion Paper)</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Keywords:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">typography, text encoding, standard encoding, Internet</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Subjects:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/380205.html">380000 Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences > 380200 Linguistics > 380205 Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)</a><br /><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/280105.html">280000 Information, Computing and Communication Sciences > 280100 Information Systems > 280105 Interfaces and Presentation (excl. Computer-Human Interaction)</a><br /><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/410201.html">410000 The Arts > 410200 Visual Arts and Crafts > 410201 Graphic Arts</a><br /><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/280107.html">280000 Information, Computing and Communication Sciences > 280100 Information Systems > 280107 Global Information Systems</a><br /><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/420100.html">420000 Language and Culture > 420100 Language Studies</a><br /><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/280502.html">280000 Information, Computing and Communication Sciences > 280500 Data Format > 280502 Data Storage Representations</a></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ID Code:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">1564</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited By:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><span class="ep_name_citation"><span class="person_name">Mr Neville Holmes</span></span></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited On:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">09 Aug 2007</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Last Modified:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">09 Jan 2008 02:30</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ePrint Statistics:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a target="ePrintStats" href="/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint;id=1564;">View statistics for this ePrint</a></td></tr></table><p align="right">Repository Staff Only: <a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/users/home?screen=EPrint::View&eprintid=1564">item control page</a></p> </td></tr></table> </div> <!-- InstanceEndEditable --></td> </tr> <tr> <td><!-- #BeginLibraryItem "/Library/footer_eprints.lbi" --> <table width="795" border="0" align="left" cellpadding="0" class="footer"> <tr valign="top"> <td colspan="2"><div align="center"><a href="http://www.utas.edu.au">UTAS home</a> | <a href="http://www.utas.edu.au/library/">Library home</a> | <a href="/">ePrints home</a> | <a href="/contact.html">contact</a> | <a href="/information.html">about</a> | <a href="/view/">browse</a> | <a href="/perl/search/simple">search</a> | <a href="/perl/register">register</a> | <a href="/perl/users/home">user area</a> | <a href="/help/">help</a></div><br /></td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2"><p><img src="/images/eprints/footerline.gif" width="100%" height="4" /></p></td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="68%" class="footer">Authorised by the University Librarian<br /> © University of Tasmania ABN 30 764 374 782<br /> <a href="http://www.utas.edu.au/cricos/">CRICOS Provider Code 00586B</a> | <a href="http://www.utas.edu.au/copyright/copyright_disclaimers.html">Copyright & Disclaimers</a> | <a href="http://www.utas.edu.au/accessibility/index.html">Accessibility</a> | <a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/feedback/">Site Feedback</a> </td> <td width="32%"><div align="right"> <p align="right" class="NoPrint"><a href="http://www.utas.edu.au/"><img src="http://www.utas.edu.au/shared/logos/unioftasstrip.gif" alt="University of Tasmania Home Page" width="260" height="16" border="0" align="right" /></a></p> <p align="right" class="NoPrint"><a href="http://www.utas.edu.au/"><br /> </a></p> </div></td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td><p> </p></td> <td><div align="right"><span class="NoPrint"><a href="http://www.eprints.org/software/"><img src="/images/eprintslogo.gif" alt="ePrints logo" width="77" height="29" border="0" align="bottom" /></a></span></div></td> </tr> </table> <!-- #EndLibraryItem --> <div align="center"></div></td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>