For the World's A B C's, He Makes 1's and 0's
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/25/technology/circuits/25code.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By MICHAEL ERARD
Published: September 25, 2003
MICHAEL EVERSON, a 40-year-old typographer who lives in Dublin,
considers himself blessed because he has found his life's work: to be
an alphabetician to all the peoples of the world. Mr. Everson's
largest project to date - a contribution to a new version of Unicode
4.0, an international standard for computerizing text - is cementing
his reputation.
His mission has taken him to Kabul, Afghanistan, and Helsinki,
Finland; to Beijing, Tokyo and Redmond, Wash. His Dublin house is a
shrine to his obsession with every writing system that humans are
known to have created - 148 of which Mr. Everson says he can use for
writing his name. In the hallway is an icon of the saints Cyril and
Methodius (Cyril is often credited with inventing the Cyrillic
alphabet) and a page from a Maghreb manuscript from North Africa.
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