Unicode and the Humanities

This special issue provides interdisciplinary insight on the implications of computer coded script standardization for scholarship in Asian Studies. Script standardization within the pragmatics of writing has a long history linked to politics, economics, and cultural identity. In the digital age there are new and complicated ways in which coding script takes on heightened significance. Given that over ninety percent of individuals who use non-Latin scripts live in Asia, insights and questions on how script standardization has an impact on the humanities, and how the humanities can shed light on the techno-politics of text production, is fundamentally at the center of Asian Studies as a method for the development of new theoretical insights on the history and philosophy of science and technology.

Contributors: Raja Adal, Joseph S. Alter, Andrew Glass, Zev Handel, Anushah Hossain, Uluğ Kuzuoğlu, Christopher Lowy, and Mark Turin