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>Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 11:48:00 -0700 (PDT)
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>Subject: Character encoding for online courseware?

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I am gathering information on how online language courseware
handles character encoding and font problems and have a couple of
questions for those who have had experience with this.

1. What character encoding is being used for your language courses?

2. If Unicode was used, how are those characters missing from Unicode handled?
(Private Use Area? Or were no characters missing for the courses being developed?) Were there other problems in
using Unicode?

3. How were variants handled (if this problem cropped up)? (This question
is probably more relevant to online text projects, and involves how to
handle variants that are *not* included in Unicode, but are needed.)

4. Do you know of other online language instruction programs being
developed at other universities? I am particularly interested in those
developing courses for lesser-known modern languages or
ancient languages (Ancient Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphics, etc.).

I'd be very grateful for any input on these questions.

With best regards,
Deborah Anderson
Researcher, Dept. of Linguistics
UC Berkeley

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