Post on 01-Jan-2016
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Alliance francaise de Shanghai - www.afshanghai.org
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
Alliance francaise de Shanghai - www.afshanghai.org
We must use an add-on, Asian suite
Alliance francaise de Shanghai - www.afshanghai.org
Alliance francaise de Shanghai - www.afshanghai.org
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
Bilingual cataloguing:Unicode or nothing
http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.htmlUnicode 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。