For example, large scale maps are comprised of multiple sheets, and individual sheets may be issued in revised editions. For library service, transliteration or pronunciation-based transcription is a poor approximation to the original. My axiom leads to the requirement that the description of an item should be in the proper language and script . But before l expand on these questions, I will say something about multiscript computing. We are all at different stages of availability of computing resources.
Availability varies between countries and also within countries.
And, whatever our current level of availability, we need to know about computing to be prepared for future opportunities. Computer processing of text requires a way to represent individual letters, numbers, ideographs, punctuation marks, etc. unambiguously. This is done with a character set, which specifies a unique pattern of bits for each character. Multiscript computing is possible when a single character set is large enough to include the characters of all scripts important to users, or when there is a technique to allow smaller, script-specific character sets to be combined. An alternative technique for multiscript computing is to use multiple character sets with announcers.