February 21, 2006 at 11:41:43 AM CET |
(typo) by miro |
"Just the pre-installed system fonts on a PC confront the user with thousands of unfamiliar characters. Many users stand helpless in the face of such vast numbers of characters, they simply lack the knowledge about the various meanings and typographically correct use of all those new characters. decodeunicode is an independent platform for digital type culture, conceived and developed under at the University of Applied Sciences Mainz. The project has the objectives of creating a basis for fundamental typographic research and facilitating a textual approach to the characters of the world for all computer users. That way, expert knowledge can be systematically collected and made accessible to the general public."
Read more about decodeunicode here...