All of these organizations maintain websites that are worth consulting from time to time. Technologism Unlike plurilingualism, which requires personal effort by individuals, technologism aims to reduce such effort to the minumum. In the technologist world, anyone should be able to use any language to communicate and to access information on the Internet without disadvantage. Although this situation is still far from realization, some notable advances are being made. Multilingual coding standards Many of the technical obstacles to making the Net fully multilingual lie in working out unambiguous coding and transliteration conventions.
Transliteration is necessary to alllow information to be conveyed between writing systems.
Coding is necessary to allow information to be transferred between data-processing systems. Given that most of the world's software was originally designed for Latin-based scripts, transliteration and coding solutions are often interrelated. The most promising solution to the coding problem is the Unicode standard, whose development has been described at some length by Janet Erickson . The International Unicode Conferences are a source of information on recent developments. Much more information on the standards under development in CEN and ISO is provided in the Web site for Everson Gunn Teoranta , in which Michael Everson and Marion Gunn exhaustively document their work on developing software and coding standards in Irish and other lesser-used languages.