The system developed by Kataoka et al. Its encoding scheme is the same as usual systems. Furthermore, its implementation does not support separation of concerns . Therefore it is not guaranteed that it can efficiently handle general symbols needed in global digital libraries and various studies. EpicVM allows one to exchange not only static characters but also dynamic programs.
Utility functions allow one to process multilingual data uniformly.
The author would like to express his gratitude for the guidance and encouragement received from Prof. T. Yuba. Text Encoding Initiative, . The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard, Version 2.0, Addison Wesley Developers Press, 1996.