1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465496703321

Autore

Kappenberg Bernd

Titolo

Setting signs for Europe : why diacritics matter for European integration / / Bernd Kappenberg ; with a foreword by Peter Schlobinski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stuttgart : , : Ibidem-Verlag, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

3-8382-6703-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 p.)

Collana

Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society ; ; 139

Disciplina

320

Soggetti

Diacritics - Political aspects

Electronic books.

Europe Languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword ; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Problem description; 1.2 Process is running-coordination is missing; 1.3 Touched policies and policy levels; 1.4 Definition of terms; 1.5 How this book is structured; 2 Definition of the required character repertoire; 2.1 Narrowing the topic; 2.2 Basic letters; 2.3 Variants of letters; 2.4 Letters from other scripts; 2.5 Ligatures; 2.5.1 Ligatures based on handwriting; 2.5.2 Typographic ligatures; 2.6 Diacritics; 2.7 Conclusion; 3 History of character sets; 3.1 BAUDOT code; 3.2 MURRAY code; 3.3 ASCII; 3.3.1 ISO 646

3.4 8-bit codes (extended ASCII formats)3.4.1 ISO 8859; 3.4.2 Windows-125x ("ANSI"); 3.5 EBCDIC; 3.6 ISO/IEC 10646 (Universal Character Set) and Unicode; 3.6.1 Unicode transformation formats (UTFs); 3.6.2 Windows Glyph List 4 (WGL4); 3.7 Success of Unicode; 3.8 Mojibake; 4 Unicode-compatible fonts; 5 State of the "diacritical integration" in the media; 5.1 Diacritics in news agencies; 5.2 Examples from selected media; 5.2.1 Print media; 5.2.2 Online media; 5.3 Case study: dpa; 5.3.1 Problems of limitation to ISO 8859-1; 5.3.2 The upcoming solution: Unicode-compatible so ware

6 Failure examples6.1 Incompatible character sets; 6.2 Do-It-Yourself diacritics; 6.3 Incorrect operation of dead keys; 6.4 Ignorance of the differences between diacritics; 6.5 Use of combining diacritics; 6.6 Replacement by images; 6.7 Replacement by escape sequences; 6.8



Conclusion; 7 Diacritics as style element inbrand and product names; 7.1 Macron as distorted French acute; 7.2 Macron as distorted French accent; 7.3 Macron as allusion to a special shape on a shoe's sole; 7.4 Macron as artistic alienation of the umlaut; 7.5 Trema points as allusion for bubbles

9.1.1 Charter of the United Nations9.1.2 Universal Declaration of Human Rights; 9.1.3 European Convention on Human Rights; 9.1.4 UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; 9.1.5 Helsinki Final Act; 9.1.6 Convention on the indication of surnames and forenames in civil status registers; 9.1.7 Document of the Copenhagen Meeting; 9.1.8 Charter of Paris for a New Europe; 9.1.9 UN Declaration on Minority Rights; 9.1.10 European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages; 9.1.11 Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities

9.1.12 Oslo Recommendations Regarding the Linguistic Rights of National Minorities

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789231003321

Titolo

Acute exposure guideline levels for selected airborne chemicals . Volume 14 / / Committee on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels, Committee on Toxicology, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : , : The National Academies Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-309-28309-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Disciplina

615.91

Soggetti

Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals Volume 14""; ""National Research Council Committee Review of Acute Exposure Guideline Levels



of Selected Airborne Chemicals""; ""Appendixes""; ""1 Agent BZ (3-Quinuclidinyl Benzilate) Acute Exposure Guideline Levels""; ""2 Ethyl Phosphorodichloridate Acute Exposure Guideline Levels""; ""3 n-Hexane Acute Exposure Guideline Levels""; ""4 Methanesulfonyl Chloride Acute Exposure Guideline Levels""; ""5 Nitric Acid Acute Exposure Guideline Levels""

""6 Propargyl Alcohol Acute Exposure Guideline Levels""""7 Vinyl Acetate Acute Exposure Guideline Levels""