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Explains the basic concepts of characters, encodings, glyphs, and fonts and gives practical examples for how to troubleshoot encoding problems, thereby helping readers solve encoding problems.

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9781612900384

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I am greatly impressed by the depth and breadth of the author's knowledge even about the history of writing systems, scripts, and languages. There is a vast amount of interesting and useful information in this book. -- John Kohl, author of The Global English Style Guide: Writing Clear, Translatable Documentation for a Global Market

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Manfred Kiefer is a Globalization Specialist for SAS Institute Inc., where he works with developers and testers around the world. His main areas of expertise are software localization and internationalization. As a result, he has a broad view of the spectrum of SAS products and solutions on different platforms, including Windows, UNIX, and z/OS. A speaker at international SAS conferences, Kiefer has written several white papers to explain the whys and hows of internationalization. Last but not least, he has made significant contributions to the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR). A SAS user for more than twenty years, Kiefer studied languages and history at Mannheim University, Germany.

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