"Hard copy versions of the Unicode Standard have been among the most crucial and most heavily used reference books in my personal library for years."
--Donald E. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming
"For more than a decade, Unicode has been a foundation for many Microsoft products and technologies; Unicode Standard Version 5.0 will help us deliver important new benefits to users."
--Bill Gates, chairman, Microsoft Corporation
"The path W3C follows to making text on the Web truly global is Unicode."
--Sir Tim Berners-Lee, kbe, Web inventor and director of the World Wide Consortium (W3C)
"Without Unicode, Java wouldn"t be Java, and the Internet would have a harder time connecting the people of the world."
--James Gosling, Inventor of Java, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
These and other software luminaries recognize that Unicode has become an indispensable tool for supporting an increasingly global marketplace (see inside for more acclaim). A comprehensive system of standards for representing alphabets throughout the world, Unicode is the basis for modern programming-- Windows, XML, Python, PERL, Mac OS, Linux--and every major search engine and browser in operation today. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0