Encoding of glyph variants -- some preliminary experiments

Christian Wittern July 2002 Overview Printed and electronic text Example: Genesis 1, 1 from the Gutenberg Bible "Encoding" of Genesis 1, 1 What are the "visual" aspects of the text? Orthography Orthography and Typography -- East and West Character encoding Spelling variants in East Asian Regions and Unicode Text encoding and text processing Requirements for East Asian text processing (1) Requirements for East Asian text processing (2) What is a topic map? A topic map of East Asian characters Graphical dimension Semantic dimension Phonetic dimension Spatial dimension Temporal dimension Visual combination of these five dimensions Combination of topics The combined topics and basic topics Associations Usage example: The Heart Sutra in the Korean Tripitaka The Heart Sutra in the Korean Tripitaka The Heart Sutra in the Korean Tripitaka The Heart Sutra in the Korean Tripitaka The Heart Sutra in the Korean Tripitaka The Heart Sutra in the Korean Tripitaka Conclusions

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Encoding of glyph variants -- some preliminary experiments