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

• Autore: Kappenberg Bernd
• Pubblicazione: Stuttgart : , : Ibidem-Verlag, , [2015]; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (307 p.)
• Disciplina: 320
• Soggetto topico: Diacritics - Political aspects
• Soggetto geografico: Europe Languages
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): SchlobinskiPeter <1954->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Setting signs for Europe
• ISBN: 3-8382-6703-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465496703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society ; ; 139.