Unicode 4.0 Web Bookmarks

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This page contains hyperlinks to the online edition of The Unicode Standard, Version 4.0. The Unicode 4.0.0 page lists the contents of the book with links to each PDF file in the online edition.

Acknowledgments

• Full Members
• Current Associate Members
• Current Liaison Members
• Current Specialist Members
• Current Individual Members
• Current Members of the Board of Directors
• Former Members of the Board of Directors

Contents

• Acknowledgments iii
• Figures xxiii
• Tables xxv
• Preface xxxi
• 1 Introduction 1
• 2 General Structure 11
• 3 Conformance 55
• 4 Character Properties 95
• 5 Implementation Guidelines 107
• 6 Writing Systems and Punctuation 147
• 7 European Alphabetic Scripts 165
• 8 Middle Eastern Scripts 191
• 9 South Asian Scripts 217
• 10 Southeast Asian Scripts 265
• 11 East Asian Scripts 291
• 12 Additional Modern Scripts 321
• 13 Archaic Scripts 337
• 14 Symbols 349
• 15 Special Areas and Format Characters 383
• 16 Code Charts 413
• 17 Han Radical-Stroke Index 1189
• A Han Unification History 1341
• B Abstracts of Unicode Technical Reports 1343
• C Relationship to ISO/IEC 10646 1347
• D Changes from Unicode Version 3.0 1355
• G Glossary 1363
• R References 1385
• I Indices 1407

Figures

Tables

Preface

• 0.1 About the Unicode Standard
  • Concepts, Architecture, Conformance, and Guidelines
  • Character Block Descriptions
  • Charts and Han Radical-Stroke Index
  • Appendices
• 0.2 The Unicode Character Database and Technical Reports
  • On the CD-ROM
• 0.3 Notational Conventions
  • Code Points
  • Character Names
  • Sequences
  • Miscellaneous
  • Extended BNF
  • Operators
• 0.4 Resources
  • Unicode Web Site
  • Unicode Anonymous FTP Site
  • Unicode E-mail Discussion List
  • How to Contact the Unicode Consortium

Introduction

• 1.1 Coverage
  • Standards Coverage
  • New Characters
• 1.2 Design Goals
• 1.3 Text Handling
  • Interpreting Characters
  • Text Elements
• 1.4 The Unicode Standard and ISO/IEC 10646
• 1.5 The Unicode Consortium
  • The Unicode Technical Committee
• 1.6 Submitting New Characters

General Structure

• 2.1 Architectural Context
  • Basic Text Processes
  • Text Elements, Characters, and Text Processes
  • Text Processes and Encoding
• 2.2 Unicode Design Principles
  • Universality