Re: [tlug] Ken Lunde's great book, CJKV Information Processing

[David Stibbe <dstibbe@example.com>]

Jim Breen wrote:
> Depends how much you want it. It's a bit dated now, as it's getting on
> for 8 years old.  It has virtually nothing on JIS 213, for example.
> (FWIW, I was a prepublication reader for both that book and its
> predecessor Understanding Japanese Info. Proc.)
> 
> I'd give the Unicode Consortium pages a lot of attention and then look 
> over Marcus Kuhn's pages on Unicode.
> 
> I find Ken's book good for looking up really way out things, especially
> related to Chinese or Korean codesets, but if I didn't have a copy
> already, I may not cough up the shekels for it.
> 
> I don't think it's getting a new edition.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Jim

Thank you,

I've decided to order the book even though it may be outdated. I did 
some research on character encodings and such before and found it quite 
frustrating, therefor I wanted a book I can use as a basic reference 
(even it isn't 100% up-to-date, but what book is? ).


David