New history paper on Unicode, OpenType fonts, and Indic scripts

Nelson H. F. Beebe beebe at math.utah.edu
Wed May 1 22:16:02 CEST 2024


The latest issue of a computer history journal has an article that
may be of interest to list readers:

@String{j-IEEE-ANN-HIST-COMPUT  = "IEEE Annals of the History of Computing"}

@Article{Hossain:2024:TSR,
  author =       "Anushah Hossain",
  title =        "Text Standards for the ``Rest of World'': The Making
                 of the {Unicode} Standard and the {OpenType} Format",
  journal =      j-IEEE-ANN-HIST-COMPUT,
  volume =       "46",
  number =       "1",
  pages =        "20--33",
  month =        jan # "\slash " # mar,
  year =         "2024",
  CODEN =        "IAHCEX",
  DOI =          "https://doi.org/10.1109/MAHC.2024.3351948",
  ISSN =         "1058-6180 (print), 1934-1547 (electronic)",
  ISSN-L =       "1058-6180",
  bibdate =      "Wed May 1 12:17:43 2024",
  bibsource =    "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/font.bib;
                 https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/ieeeannhistcomput.bib;
                 https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/typeset.bib;
                 https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/unicode.bib",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
  fjournal =     "IEEE Annals of the History of Computing",
  journal-URL =  "https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=85",
  keywords =     "Computers; Encoding; History; History of Computing;
                 Indic scripts; Keyboards; OpenType font format;
                 Standards; text stack; Unicode Standard; Visualization;
                 Writing",
}

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