Paola Perrochon
Professor Worthington
October 2nd, 2010
ITE 221 - Chapter 2 Blog Entry
The website I choose is url : http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/.
This site is the main site for the Unicode Consortium which was developed in 1991 by several computer companies to develop a multilingual character-encoding standard that will work with all written languages. This site contains historical information that describes the process that was worked through to develop the different standards they created, including the latest which is Unicode 5.2.0. All relevant information about this new code is detailed on this site showing what additions were added to the code. Guidelines for using the code as well as basic information describing how the code works and what can now be done with it is also on this site. All in all this site is a great source about character coding and what the future could bring to even further the codes already in place. The fact that all written languages will be and mostly are already included in this code means that the computing age literally has now become a worldwide phenomenon in which anyone from any culture can become a part of. There is no longer a need for people to have to learn the English language or other more European languages to be able to use computers and their applications...now anyone anywhere can become part of what people call this age, the second industrial revolution.
