The Black Ice Document Imaging SDK includes Unicode support from Version 12.00.
This support ensures the usability of foreign languages and special characters in the filenames when using the Black Ice Document Imaging SDK or any other Black Ice Imaging Tools. Unicode is a popular topic among computer users that work with multilingual text.
Unicode provides a unique number for every character, no matter what the platform, program or language. Unicode enables a single software product or a single website to be targeted across multiple platforms, languages and countries without re-engineering.
Unicode is an industry standard character set encoding developed and maintained by The Unicode® Consortium. The Unicode character set is able to support over one million characters. It is being developed with an aim to have a single character set that supports all characters from all scripts. As well as many symbols that are commonly used worldwide currently or in the past. Currently, the Standard supports over 94,000 characters representing a large number of scripts. Unicode also defines three encoding forms, each of which is able to represent the entire character set. The three encoding forms are based on 8-, 16- and 32-bit code units, providing a flexibility that makes Unicode suitable for implementation in a wide variety of environments.
Unicode Support within the Black Ice Software Development Kits:
- Support for Unicode Filenames