For tens of millions of people around the world-from West Africa to Southeast Asia to the Middle East-the Internet's not such a friendly place. That's because many of the world's writing systems still aren't encoded in software, which means millions of people can't write e-mail, build Web sites, or search databases in their native scripts. A group of linguists at the University of California, Berkeley, is trying to change that, by making sure that nearly 100 additional scripts have a place in a crucial international standard that lets computers render, process, and send text data.

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