From: Kent_Spielmann@sil.org
Date: Thu Aug 17 2006 - 14:24:58 CDT
> Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote on 08/17/2006 12:30:09 PM:
> Curtis Clark wrote:
> > On 2006-08-17 05:10, Don Osborn wrote:
> >> Does anyone know about how Unicode (and internationalization &
> >> multilingual computing generally) is treated in major university
> >> computer science programs?
> >
>
> Sometimes I mention/discuss it a little in my graduate level courses on
> XML and Java at Polytechnic in Brooklyn. It's certainly not a major
> focus of any curriculum or course I know of.
>
Does any one have any favorite web resources or teaching materials for
introducing Unicode to the uninitiated? Things that are fairly free from
technical jargon. How about a curriculum, teaching assignments or tests?
We in SIL are trying to create e-courses on Unicode, for different level
users, from General Users to IT Support Personnel. Any suggestions or
materials would be greatly appreciated.
By the way, the 8 bit fonts in the documents that started this thread are
some of our old SIL fonts; I cringe every time I see people still using
them, but awareness is hard to create. If anyone reading this doesn't know,
a variety of free, excellent quality Unicode fonts designed for linguistics
and minority language applications are available from the SIL Scripts
website http://scripts.sil.org/FontDownloads.
Kent Spielmann
SIL International Linguistics Department
7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road,
Dallas, TX 75236 USA
Tel: + 1 972 708 7570
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