Catching up to Unicode
Roozbeh Pournader · 2002
Unicode, the universal character set standard first published in 1991, has changed dramatically in its more than ten years of development, trying to achieve maximum interoperability of internationalized text between dierent platforms. In the meanwhile, TEX, and its companion production tools, have stuck loyally to their roots of special formats and traditions known only to the TEX community, rather ignoring this moving target. This paper will try to draw a general outline of the Unicode standard in its present situation, emphasizing on its recently introduced features. It will also try to specify new requirements for Omega, in order to make it usable in the developing realm of standard renderings.