* A Brief History of
Character Codes in North America, Europe, and East Asia -- by Steven J.
In other words, in order to guarantee the portability of existing software, decisions on the direction of the layout have to rely only on the semantics of
character codes, not the presence of extra directional idiosyncrasies in the stored text.
Standards developed thus far for Chinese
character codes also do not necessarily cross national boundaries and this inhibits the development of data communication systems.
Character codes table Units digits Char 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A Tens 0 !
The principal problem preventing users from browsing documents written in a foreign language is the lack of both a font for the language and a display function to process multiple
character codes. We developed a technology called MHTML to browse multilingual documents on an off-the-shelf Web browser, and applied the technology to a multilingual gateway service to browse foreign documents and to a multilingual electronic text collection of Japanese folk tales [2, 3, 4].