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The Profession as a Culture Killer

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posted on 2023-05-25, 23:48 authored by Holmes, WN
This essay considers the adverse effects of digital technology on the culture of written language, starting with the character set poverty of early digital computing, followed by the persistent neglect of typographical capability and the unforgiveable failure to enrich literate culture, in particular in Chinese, and finishing with a plea to provide separate World Wide Webs for each of the world's writing systems.

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Publication title

Computer

Volume

40

Article number

9

Number

9

Pagination

112, 110-111

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0018-9162

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    typographycharacter setstext encodinghanzi encodingkeyboard designWorld Wide Web

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