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Culegerea textelor vechi slave în format electronic
Old Church Slavonic Texts in Electronic Format

Author(s): Sorin Paliga
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Library operations and management, Electronic information storage and retrieval, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Philology
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti
Keywords: Old Church Slavonic Texts; Electronic Format;

Summary/Abstract: The paper briefly presents the current situation with Unicode Consortium, resumes the situation specific to Romanian in the wake of the recent changes brought by the Romanian Academy and the implementation of the Academic norms in the operating systems (Linux, MAC OS, Windows). The paper focuses on the specific problems raised by Old Church Slavonic documents. The author presents his experience within a quite large group who, in 2006–2007 put together all the facts and arguments in order to enhance the Unicode Cyrillic characters, and also correct former errors. Finally, the author suggests practical ways to set Mediaeval Cyrillic and Glagolitic documents in electronic form, and exemplifies with some specific data.

  • Issue Year: XLV/2009
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 179-189
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Romanian