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The 39th National Convention of AAASS will be held at the New Orleans Marriott, in New Orleans, Louisiana, from Thursday, November 15, 2007 through Sunday, November 19, 2007. Please be sure to contact AAASS to register.
Something of interest
"The Standardization of Old Slavic Cyrillic Writing and Its Registration in Unicode."
The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU), Sector of Language and Literature, and the Institute of Serbian Language, SANU is sponsoring this international scholarly conference in Belgrade, Serbia, October 15-17, 2007 . Please take this opportunity to review the full program.
The Unicode consortium is a non-profit organization founded for the purpose of developing, disseminating, promoting and using the UNICODE STANDARD which defines text presentation in contemporary computer programs. The Unicode standard has become universally accepted and almost all the languages of the world, i.e. their scripts have been registered in it today.
With the Cyrillic script, Unicode has registered the complete contemporary Cyrillic (covering all the scripts of all the nations using it), and only those Old Church Slavic letters which the contemporary Cyrillic does not contain. A consequence of this is that the modern and old Cyrillic cannot be employed in the same font at the same time. An Old Church Slavic script which would additionally cover national redactions as well has actually not been registered at all.
The goals of the conference are as follows:
- To determine the standard for the Old Slavic script (precisely define all the letters, superimposed letters, diacritical marks, ligatures and numerals representing the Old Slavic language),
- Define the alphabet (if differing opinions exist),
- Submit such a joint proposal, on behalf of all the institutions whose representatives are participating in the conference, to Unicode with the request to register the Old Slavic script separately and independently from the current situation with the registration of Cyrillic.
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