Microsoft PowerPoint - aat_in_depth.pptx

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Introduction to the AAT

revised May 2019 For educational purposes

DIACRITICS AND UNICODE

image: Encyclopedia Britannica online, La Roche aux Fées, megalithic gallery grave of the Neolithic Period (

c.3000–

c.1800 BC), Essé, Ille-et-Vilaine, France

gallery

graves

(preferred,

descriptor,

English

‐P)

gallery

grave

(alternate

descriptor,

English)

graves,

gallery

(used

for,

English)

all$00ees

couvertes

(descriptor,

French

‐P,

UF

English)

all$00ees couvertes

= allées couvertes

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In existing legacy data, diacritics are recorded in code-extended ASCII (e.g., $00)

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Data is published in Unicode

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Contribuions ma be in Unicode

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Diacritics may occur all fields – terms, scope notes, display date fields, sources, etc.

Patricia Harpring © 2019 J. Paul Getty Trus

t. For educational purposes. Do not reproduce.