early cyrillic writing on computer

[David J. Birnbaum]

The Special Commission on the Computer-Supported Processing of Mediæval
Slavonic Manuscripts and Early Printed Books to the International Committee
of Slavists has prepared a "White Paper" on Character Set Standardisation
for Early Cyrillic Writing after Unicode 5.1, in advance of the 14th
International Congress of Slavists next month.  This is in part a response
to the "Proposal", with which many of you will be familiar, that originated
at the conference held at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in
Belgrade on 15-17 October 2007, but is also intended to have a much wider
application as a review of the current state of Unicode and a statement of
its design principles with particular reference to the needs of Slavonic
mediævalists.  It covers topics such as the relationship between character
set and font technologies, possible need for further expansion of the early
Cyrillic character inventory in Unicode and strategies for meeting the
encoding needs of Slavic mediævalists in a standards-conformant way.  The
white paper is available at

http://www.obshtezhitie.net/docs/2008-07-26_white-paper.pdf

and the associated table of Early Cyrillic Characters in Unicode at

http://www.obshtezhitie.net/docs/2008-07-25_character-table.pdf

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R.M.Cleminson, M.A., D.Phil.,
Professor of Slavonic Studies,
University of Portsmouth,
Park Building,
King Henry I Street,
Portsmouth PO1 2DZ
tel. +44 23 92 846143, fax: +44 23 92 846040

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