Article: Bringing in more of the world with Unicode.(Company Business and Marketing)

One of the most overlooked aspects of e-commerce is international trade. E-mail and the Web largely are based on written language, and it has taken a long time for the world to agree on how to represent the many forms of writing in a single standard. The recent release of Unicode Version 3 goes a long way toward solving the problem of too many local standards, making it easier for companies to internationalize their Internet communications.

Although Unicode has been around for almost 10 years, it has come into the limelight only recently now that the Internet has made it almost trivial to engage in trans-border communication and commerce. Sending messages to ...

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