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Writing Systems
What is a Writing System?
Graphemes and Phonemes
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Language Tagging
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CLDR and SLDR
LDML
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Computing Support
WS Computing Model
What is Adequate Support?
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Encoding & Unicode
Characters, Codepoints, Glyphs
The Unicode Standard
New characters and scripts
Unicode Concepts
Unicode Bidi Algorithm
Private Use Area
Legacy Encodings
Encoding Conversion
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Input & Keyboards
From Keystrokes to Codepoints
Keyboards and Tools
Other Input Methods
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Fonts
Font and Feature UI
Types of font families
Finding & Using Fonts
Evaluating Fonts
Copyright & Licensing
Font Design & Development
Font Formats
Unified Font Objects (UFOs)
Font & Style Naming
Versioning
Design Metrics
Line Metrics
Character Support
Glyph Naming
Adobe Glyph List
Shaping and Rendering
OpenType
User Interface Strings
ZWJ & ZWNJ
Python Tools
Testing Shaping Engines
Building & Modifying SIL Fonts
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Layout
Layout Overview
Direction
Line Breaking
Justification
Hyphenation
Punctuation
Page Layout
Paragraph Layout
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Analysis
Analysis Overview
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Scripts Index
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