34.1389, FYI: “Documenting and Preserving Languages with Unicode: A Talk on Character Encoding, Keyboards, and Fonts”

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LINGUIST List: Vol-34-1389. Wed May 03 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.1389, FYI: “Documenting and Preserving Languages with Unicode: A Talk on Character Encoding, Keyboards, and Fonts”

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Date: 03-May-2023
From: Deborah  Anderson [dwanders at berkeley.edu]
Subject: “Documenting and Preserving Languages with Unicode: A Talk on Character Encoding, Keyboards, and Fonts” 


The Unicode Consortium will be holding a webinar on “Documenting and
Preserving Languages with Unicode: A Talk on Character Encoding,
Keyboards, and Fonts” on Tuesday, May 16, 2023 at 11 a.m. Pacific
Time.

The presenters are Dr. Deborah Anderson (Chair, Unicode Script Ad Hoc
and Project Lead, Script Encoding Initiative, Dept. of Linguistics, UC
Berkeley) and Dr. Andrew Glass (Chair of Unicode CLDR Keyboards
Subcommittee). The talk will be recorded.

Abstract:
The Unicode Standard is the basis of electronic communication today on
computers and devices, and hence is fundamental to documenting and
preserving languages and the scripts used to write them. But
understanding how Unicode is structured, how characters and scripts
are added, and how to get characters on keyboards and in fonts can be
challenging. This webinar on character encoding, keyboards, and fonts
is geared to language practitioners and users generally. It will
provide an overview of Unicode, explain how characters are organized
in Unicode and how to propose new characters, and discuss accessing
the characters on keyboards and fonts.

Please register at: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Nm6l_j
CnS9iMGGWswdbe5g#/registration

For other, related talks, see the Scripts and Encoding playlist on the
Unicode YouTube Channel.
Please feel free to circulate this message to others who may be
interested.

Linguistic Field(s): Writing Systems




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