Let me follow up by saying that my institution has given me a small grant to study our first year doing web based classes and all the reference material you point me towards will be read. Today while I was lunching at a deli near my friendly neighborhood BigNameIvyleagueUrban University, I was sitting near two college seniors who were on campus for training as leaders for incoming student orientation next week. It's been a long time since I became disabused of the economic dimension of that revered entity, Higher Education. But I was struck with how far the language of the market had trickled down to these energetic, idealistic naifs. Dear Humanists, I am in search of bibliographic references on the subject of character sets used for electronic information processing.
Any pointers welcome.
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