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Tobias Kniep

Effective Internationalization for Embedded Systems

26. February 2014

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Coded Character Set“A mapping from a set of abstract characters to a set of integers.” Ken Lunde,

CJKV Information Processing

Unicode

ASCII128

JIS X 0213:2004 4354

Unicode BMP 65536

Unicode1114112

Number of characters

How to represent the chars?

ASCII

H e a l t h 0x48 0x65 0x61 0x6C 0x74 0x68

[0x48,0x65,0x61,0x6C,0x74,0x68]

Encoding Form

„A character encoding form plus byte serialization “

Glossary of theUnicode Consortium

„Mapping from a character set definition to the actual code units used to represent the data.”

Encoding Scheme

Unicode

健 康 0x5065 0x5EB7

UTF-16LE:[0x65,0x50,0xB7,0x5E]? UTF-8:[0xE5,0x81,0xA5,0xE5,0xBA,0xB7]

UTF-32BE:[0x00,0x00,0x50,0x65,0x00,0x00,0x5E,0xB7]

�康

Endianess

Little Endian

Big Endian [0x65,0x50,0xB7,0x5E]

[0x50,0x65,0x5E,0xB7]

健康(0x6550,0xB75E)

敐띞

UTF-8H 0x48¥ 0xC2,0xA5

健 0xE5,0x81,0xA5

𠀷 0xF0,0xA0,0x80,0xB7

0x48 010010000xC2 110000100xE5 111001010xF0 11110000

UTF-16H 0x0048¥ 0x00A5

健 0x5065

𠀷 0xD840,0xDC37

UTF-32H 0x00000048¥ 0x000000A5

健 0x00005065

𠀷 0x00020037

UTF-8

How to display chars?

Font“A collection of glyphs usedfor the visual depictionof character data.”

Glossary of theUnicode Consortium

Pixel-Matrix Here:

3 bits/pixel

No scaling

Easy todisplay

Predictable

output

Bitmap Font

Large

Outline FontLines, Arcs,

CurvesNeeds Renderer

Scaling

Output hard

to predict

Bitmap Font

Anti-aliasing

CharacterSet Encoding Font

Ken Lunde, CJKV Information ProcessingO’Reilly 2009

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