Unicode Teaching in Universities

[William_J_G Overington]

Doug Ewell wrote as follows:

> First and foremost, https://www.unicode.org/faq/han_cjk.html 
> <https://www.unicode.org/faq/han_cjk.html>  .

Thank you for that link. That is helpful.

> Unicode is a character encoding, JUST LIKE the GB and CNS (Chinese) 
> and JIS (Japanese) encodings. NONE of these is an encoding of glyphs. 
> The only difference is that people used to use character-set signaling 
> — in-band or out-of-band — as a hint to display text in a Chinese-type 
> or Japanese-type font.

Could someone possibly write about how "character-set signaling — 
in-band or out-of-band — as a hint to display text in a Chinese-type or 
Japanese-type font" was/is done in the CNS and JIS encodings please?

William Overington

Tuesday 7 September 2021



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