Welcome and Introduction

• Who's who?
• What do we want from this workshop?

Coded character sets: Past, Present and Future

• Coded character sets
  • Controls vs. Graphics
  • Glyphs
• A short history of character sets
  • Morse code
  • Baudot code
  • ISO 646, ISO 2022 and ISO 8859
  • Windows code pages
  • Shift-JIS
  • GBK
• Unicode
  • Unicode 1.0
  • High-Level structure
  • Unicode 4.0

Unicode character set and standards

• Overview
• The Unicode character set
  • Notation
  • The 10 Unicode design principles
  • Special characters
  • Special non-characters
• The Unicode standard
  • Elements of the standard
• Unicode vs. ISO 10646
  • Main differences
  • Unicode conformance

Representing Unicode: choosing the proper form

• Unicode encodings
  • UTF-32
  • UTF-16
  • UTF-8
  • CESU-8
• Compression schemes
  • SCSU
  • BOCU-1
• Normalization Forms

Unicode implementation

• Reference i18n model
• Transcoding
• Text processing
  • Case handling
  • Case mapping, folding
• Text boundaries
  • Grapheme clusters
  • Words
  • Lines
  • Sentences
• Collation
• Sorting and searching

Database issues

• Overview
• Unicode support
  • UTF-8
  • UTF-16
• Multilingual schema design
  • Stringtables per column
  • Stringtables per table
  • Database global stringtable
• Database migration to Unicode
  • Migration concerns
  • How to migrate

Asian character sets

• GB 18030-2000
  • Background
  • Properties
  • Encoding
  • Conformance
• HKSCS-2001
  • Background
  • Encoding
  • HKSCS & Unicode
  • HKSCS & Big-5
• JIS 0213:2000
  • Background
  • Properties
  • Encoding
  • Conformance
• Korean character sets
  • The Korean writing system
  • Jamo
  • Hangul syllables
  • Hangul - Implementation
  • KS X 1001 character set
  • KS X 1001 encoding
  • Microsoft code page 949
  • Unicode