Fo & Fo: Forscher und Fonts, oder Probleme der multilingualen Textverarbeitung in der Slavistik

Summary:This paper is intended to help Slavicists dealing with multilingual text.It presents an account of the experience gained while working on the SlaVaCompproject. The main concern of the paper are problems of multilingual text pro-cessing specifically the use of characters in entering Greek and Church Slavonictexts into the computer. It also broaches the most common problems encounteredwhen using Unicode characters. Finally, the paper discusses select text proces-sing technologies based on the WYSIWYG principle which can be employed torepresent medieval manuscripts correctly by means of Unicode.