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Typical computer support consisted in early loading the adequate character map, then glyphs were rendered correctly. | Typical computer support consisted in early loading the adequate character map, then glyphs were rendered correctly. | ||
The first issue with this approach is about | The first issue with this approach is about conversion. To view some text in Greek or Cyrillic language on a display configured for Western European requires to switch back and forth between codepages. | ||
=Unicode= | |||
Unicode is a standard and an effort to encode symbols from every language existing or having existed on Earth. There are actually 190000 signs from 93 languages. Unicode is equivalent to ISO/CEI 10646. | |||