Corpora: Re: Unicode

[LITTLECHILD Peter]

"Mcenery, Tony" wrote:
> So while I think Unicode is the way for corpus work to go in the future,
> treading that path with non-alphabetic writing systems at this moment in time
> is somewhat difficult.

I had a quick look at Unicode as a way of solving the problem of accented characters in Welsh. My first impressions were that I
would have to throw away my favourite editors and have all my Perl and Balise programs re-written by rocket scientists.

But maybe that's too pessimistic..

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