Article
French
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Abstract
Écritures du monde (World Script) is a Web resource center created by Monique Slodzian, François Stuck and Michel Bottin, devoted to applications related to the writing systems of the world. Its ambition is to give access to the whole context, technical and cultural, necessary to manage documents or writing in multiscript environment. We know that Unicode is concerned by universal coding of all the existing characters but the greatest part of users do’nt have the cultural and technical knowledge offered by Écritures du monde. This web site is incluing elements of the genealogy and story of scripts. It describes also the general processing of Unicode and the broad data processing context (search engines, font, word processor, collating sequences and others tools). It describes also specific knowledges like traditional or computer typography, transliteration, calligraphy...