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Expand Up @@ -159,41 +159,6 @@ <h2>Dealing with Cultural Differences</h2>
<h1>Writing</h1>
</section>

<section class="slide" id="text-ancient-history">
<h2>An Abbreviated History of Machines &amp; Text</h2>

<p>
It's been assumed that there's a unique way to produce each
character since the invention of movable type:
</p>

<figure>
<blockquote class="long">
<p>When he wished to print, he took an iron frame and set
it on the iron plate. In this he placed the types, set
close together. When the frame was full, the whole made one
solid block of type. He then placed it near the fire to
warm it. When the paste [at the back] was slightly melted,
he took a smooth board and pressed it over the surface, so
that the block of type became as even as a whetstone.</p>

<p><em>For each character there were several types, and for
certain common characters there were twenty or more types
each,</em> in order to be prepared for the repetition of
characters on the same page. When the characters were not
in use he had them arranged with paper labels, one label
for each rhyme-group, and kept them in wooden cases.</p>
</blockquote>
<figcaption>
Description of the ceramic movable type system created by Bi
Sheng (990–1051) from Joseph Needham's <u>Science and
Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical
Technology, Part 1, Paper and Printing</u>, as quoted in
Wikipedia's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movable_type#History_of_Movable_type">History of Movable type</a>
</figcaption>
</figure>
</section>

<section class="slide">
<h2>An Abbreviated History of Electronic Text</h2>
<p>
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<section class="slide" id="unicode">
<h2>Unicode</h2>

<p>
Starting in the 1980s, engineers from various companies started
working on an ambitious project: a universal 16-bit character
set which could represent every character used in human writing.
At some point it expanded beyond 16 bits but the goal hasn't
changed
</p>

<figure>
<figcaption><a href="http://www.unicode.org/standard/principles.html">The Unicode® Standard: A Technical Introduction</a></figcaption>
<blockquote class="long" cite="http://www.unicode.org/standard/principles.html">
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alphabets, ideograph sets, and symbol collections.</p>
</blockquote>
</figure>

</section>

<section class="slide terminology" id="terminology-unicode">
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<p>Determining how strings compare for the purposes of sorting</p>

<div class="center-block">
<table>
<table>
<caption>
Sample character collation rules
</caption>
<tr>
<th class="section" colspan="2">By Language</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Swedish:</th>
<td>z &lt; ö</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>German:</th>
<td>ö &lt; z</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>German:</th>
<td><abbr title="LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S">ß</abbr> = ss</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Swedish:</th>
<td>z &lt; ö</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>German:</th>
<td>ö &lt; z</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>German:</th>
<td><abbr title="LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S">ß</abbr> = ss</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<th class="section" colspan="2">By Context</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>French:</th>
<td>cote &lt; côte &lt; coté &lt; côté</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>French:</th>
<td>cote &lt; côte &lt; coté &lt; côté</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<th class="section" colspan="2">By Usage</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>German Dictionary:</th>
<td>of &lt; öf</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>German Telephone:</th>
<td>öf &lt; of</td>
</tr>
</table>
<tr>
<th>German Dictionary:</th>
<td>of &lt; öf</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>German Telephone:</th>
<td>öf &lt; of</td>
</tr>
</table>

<p class="attribution">
Sources: <cite><a href="http://unicode.org/reports/tr10/">Unicode Technical Standard #10</a></cite>
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</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p class="larger center">Summary: <strong>use Unicode!</strong></p>
</section>

<section class="slide" id="complex-scripts">
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