The Unicode Cookbook for Linguists
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Description
Contents
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Language
English
ISBN
978-3-96110-090-3
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Writing systems
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Encoding
1.3 Linguistic terminology
2 The Unicode approach
2.1 Background
2.2 The Unicode Standard
2.3 Character encoding system
2.4 Grapheme clusters
3 Unicode pitfalls
3.1 Wrong it ain't
3.2 Pitfall: Characters are not glyphs
3.3 Pitfall: Characters are not graphemes
3.4 Pitfall: Missing glyphs
3.5 Pitfall: Faulty rendering
3.6 Pitfall: Blocks
3.7 Pitfall: Names
3.8 Pitfall: Homoglyphs
3.9 Pitfall: Canonical equivalence
3.10 Pitfall: Absence of canonical equivalence
3.11 Pitfall: Encodings
3.12 Pitfall: File formats
3.13 Pitfall: Incomplete implementations
3.14 Recommendations
4 The International Phonetic Alphabet
4.1 Brief history
4.2 Premises and principles
4.3 IPA encodings
4.4 The need for a single multilingual environment
5 IPA meets Unicode
5.1 The twain shall meet
5.2 Pitfall: No complete IPA code block
5.3 Pitfall: IPA homoglyphs in Unicode
5.4 Pitfall: Homoglyphs in IPA
5.5 Pitfall: Multiple encoding options in IPA
5.6 Pitfall: Tie bar
5.7 Pitfall: Ligatures and digraphs
5.8 Pitfall: Missing decomposition
5.9 Pitfall: Different notions of diacritics
5.10 Pitfall: No unique diacritic ordering
5.11 Pitfall: Revisions to the IPA
5.12 Additions to the IPA
5.13 Unicode IPA Recommendations
6 Practical recommendations
6.1 Unicode
6.2 IPA
6.3 For programmers and potential programmers
7 Orthography profiles
7.1 Characterizing writing systems
7.2 Informal description
7.3 Formal specification
8 Implementation
8.1 Overview
8.2 How to install Python and R
8.3 Python package: segments
8.4 R library: qlcData
8.5 Recipes online
References
Index
Name index
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