CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Turkish Experiences with Multi-Script, Multi-Character, and Multilingual Cataloguing Issues -- Commentary -- Nine Problems Concerning Arabic -- Commentary -- Cataloguing of Documents for Multilingual Catalogues of Libraries in Russia: Analysis of the Problem Situation -- System of Multilingual Catalogues and Problems Arising at the Initial Stage of Electronic Database Creation -- Commentary -- Multilingual and Multi-Character Set Data in Library Systems and Networks: Experiences and Perspectives from Switzerland and Finland -- Commentary -- The Unicode™ Standard: An Overview with Emphasis on Bidirectionality -- Commentary -- Selected Bibliography.