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Bilingual cataloguing: Unicode or nothing

Bilingual cataloguing: Unicode or nothing. Our library software, Agate 2.62 is supposed to support any type of writing systems. But as the company has still not developed the Unicode platform, we cannot display both French accents (â, ë…) and Chinese characters.

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Bilingual cataloguing: Unicode or nothing

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  1. Bilingual cataloguing:Unicode or nothing Our library software, Agate 2.62 is supposed to support any type of writing systems. But as the company has still not developed the Unicode platform, we cannot display both French accents (â, ë…) and Chinese characters. Alliance francaise de Shanghai - www.afshanghai.org

  2. Alliance francaise de Shanghai - www.afshanghai.org

  3. We must use an add-on, Asian suite Alliance francaise de Shanghai - www.afshanghai.org

  4. Alliance francaise de Shanghai - www.afshanghai.org

  5. For French, use an AZERTY keyboard or ALT +… • 130 (0233) = é • 138 (0232) = è • 133 (0224) = à • 150 (0251) = û • Etc. Alliance francaise de Shanghai - www.afshanghai.org

  6. Bilingual cataloguing:Unicode or nothing http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html Unicode provides a unique number for every character,no matter what the platform,no matter what the program,no matter what the language. Because it uses blocks of 256 characters for encoding. 什麼是Unicode(統一碼/標準萬國碼)? Unicode給每個字元提供了一個唯一的數位，不論是什麼平臺、不論是什麼程式、不論是什麼語言。 Alliance francaise de Shanghai - www.afshanghai.org

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