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Setting Signs for Europe
Bernd Kappenberg
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Description for Setting Signs for Europe
Paperback. Series Editor(s): Umland, Andreas. Num Pages: 294 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; CFDM; JPSN2. Dimension: 150 x 214 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
More than 20 years have passed since the introduction of the Universal Character Set. However, legacy applications still cannot even render German umlauts correctly. Part of this problem is a hidden political agenda: Consciously or unconsciously, patterns of the Cold War are continued in the interaction between Western and Eastern European languages. This book examines the current use of diacritical marks in Western Europe, such as the use of names from Slavic languages in electronic data processing systems. The role of the media as multiplier receives particular attention, with most error examples taken from actual media coverage. Considering international, EU, ... Read more
More than 20 years have passed since the introduction of the Universal Character Set. However, legacy applications still cannot even render German umlauts correctly. Part of this problem is a hidden political agenda: Consciously or unconsciously, patterns of the Cold War are continued in the interaction between Western and Eastern European languages. This book examines the current use of diacritical marks in Western Europe, such as the use of names from Slavic languages in electronic data processing systems. The role of the media as multiplier receives particular attention, with most error examples taken from actual media coverage. Considering international, EU, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Germany
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
Number of Pages
294
Place of Publication
Stuttgart, Germany
ISBN
9783838206639
SKU
V9783838206639
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About Bernd Kappenberg
Dr. Peter Schlobinski ist Professor fÃ"r Germanistische Linguistik am Deutschen Seminar der Leibniz-Universität Hannover. Andreas Umland is Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for European Security in the Institute of International Relations at Prague, Principal Researcher of the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation at Kyiv, and General Editor of the ibidem-Verlag book series Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society.
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