From majors@u.washington.edu Tue Jul 9 09:25:06 2002 Received: from mailscan5.cac.washington.edu (mailscan5.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.14]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g69GP1Nn067696 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:25:01 -0700 Received: FROM mxu2.u.washington.edu BY mailscan5.cac.washington.edu ; Tue Jul 09 09:25:00 2002 -0700 Received: from mxout3.cac.washington.edu (mxout3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.19]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.06) with ESMTP id g69GP0JY018898 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:25:00 -0700 Received: from mailscan-out2.cac.washington.edu (mailscan-out2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.17]) by mxout3.cac.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.06) with SMTP id g69GOxYu021752 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:24:59 -0700 Received: FROM mailhost2.u.washington.edu BY mailscan-out2.cac.washington.edu ; Tue Jul 09 09:24:59 2002 -0700 Received: from [128.95.171.36] ([128.95.171.36]) by mailhost2.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.06) with ESMTP id g69GOweD021419 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:24:59 -0700 Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 09:24:57 -0700 Subject: inquiry on Unicode use for online language courses/materials From: Bob Majors To: listBCast LLC-list Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Following is email I received from a researcher in the Dept. of Linguistics, UC Berkeley, asking about use of Unicode in online language courseware. If anyone has any relevant information to her questions, please let me know and I can forward that information to her. I think online foreign language material might also be of interest, even if not strictly courseware. I also suggested that she post her questions to LLTI. thanks Bob Majors Language Learning Center --FWD-- I am gathering information on how online language courseware will be handling the character encoding/font problem and have a couple of questions. from Microsoft had mentioned your name as the possible contact at U of W regarding this. 1. What character encoding is being used for the language courses? (Note: I know that Unicode covers math symbols used in math and scientific notation in general, so the question need not be restricted only to linguistics/language courses.) 2. If Unicode was used, how characters missing from Unicode were handled (Private Use Area? Or were no characters missing for the courses being tested?). 3. How were variants handled (if this problem cropped up)? 4. Do you know of other online language instruction programs being developed at other universities? I'd be very grateful for any input on this. With best regards, Deborah Anderson Researcher, Dept. of Linguistics UC Berkeley .