Library Systems and Unicode: A Review of the Current State of Development.

Unicode, a standard developed in 1991, defines a universal character set for encoding the characters in the scripts of the world's languages. Unicode implementation has been gaining momentum in recent years especially in the software and computer industry. Academic libraries with collections of materials in multiple languages will want to take advantage of Unicode for display and searching of materials in non-Latin scripts such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Chinese. The focus of this article is a review of Unicode and its incorporation in library systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]