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The Glagolitic alphabet was invented during the 9th century by the missionaries St Cyril (827-869 AD) and St Methodius (826-885 AD) in order to translate the bible and other religious works into the language of the Great Moravia region. What does that have to do with e-discovery? Believe it or not, everything, if you care about Unicode.

There are different revisions of Unicode, each adding or improving writing systems, to be used within the electronic world. Within Unicode there is a concept of encoding. Encoding is where things can get crazy. Encoding is the way in which the computer uses a series of numbers to store the characters that are represented. It leaves the display up to the software(browser, office doc, email client) and does a nice job of separating the two. There are limitations to encoding documents this way, however I’m not going into that now. You can check the wikipedia page if you want more info.

Back to our problem; How and what do you need to look for in a vendor that can support Unicode. Well there are different standards that are all considered “Unicode”. (more…)