26: The Tofu Problem

Embedded.fm · 7 Nov 2013 · 1h 00m

What this episode covers

Dr. Ken Lunde, a font development expert at Adobe and author of 'CJKV Information Processing', explains the complexities of internationalizing embedded devices for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) languages. He and host Elecia Wiewiorka use a hypothetical smart refrigerator to discuss the technical requirements of supporting CJK text, including character sets, encoding standards like UTF-8, and the structure of Unicode planes. Lunde highlights specific challenges such as Han unification, where shared Unicode code points require different glyph shapes for different regions, and the memory constraints of storing fonts on resource-limited hardware.

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Companies: Adobe Systems, Google, O'Reilly
Products: CJKV Information Processing, Noto
Also: Unicode, UTF-8, Shift JIS

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