Omega — why Bother with Unicode?

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  • Robin Fairbairns
  • Yannis Haralambous
چکیده

Yannis Haralambous’ and John Plaice’s Omega system employs Unicode as its coding system. This short note (which previously appeared in the UKTUG magazine Baskerville volume 5, number 3) considers the rationale behind Unicode itself and behind its adoption for Omega.

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تاریخ انتشار 1998