Editorial Introduction to Issue 37: Monocultures Threaten More Than Species

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Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue issue 37.

These days zoologists view with increasing alarm the disappearance of species in this world, to the point where they fear their extinction will predate their discovery. This is no less true for linguists who are witnessing the same phenomenon in terms of dying languages and dialects. A parallel therefore can be drawn with the situation as detailed by Deborah Anderson.

Unicode and Historic Scripts

editor — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:00:00 +0000

Deborah Anderson provides us an overview of the progress made in bringing historic scripts to the Unicode Standard.

Many digital versions of texts--whether they be the plays of Aeschylus, or stories from this week's Times--can now be accessed by a worldwide audience, thanks to the Internet and developments in international standards and the computer industry. But while modern newspapers in English and even the Greek plays of Aeschylus can be viewed on the Internet in their original script, reading articles that cite a line of original text in Egyptian hieroglyphs is more problematic, for this script has not yet been included in the international character encoding standard Unicode.

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Editorial Introduction to Issue 37: Monocultures Threaten More Than Species

Unicode and Historic Scripts