Character Sets Links

Links that lead to off-site pages about character sets.

• Official
• Unicode
• Wikipedia
• Miscellany

Official

• ISO.ch
  • Purchase the ISO 10646 Standard
• RFC 20 ASCII format for Network Interchange [FAQs.org/rfcs/rfc20.html]
• RFC 3629 UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646 [IETF.org/rfc/rfc3629.txt]
• W3.org/2003/entities/. 'XML Entity Declarations for Characters'
• W3.org/Math/characters/html/symbol.html. 'SYMBOL Characters and Glyphs'

Unicode

• A tutorial on character code issues [cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html]
• AlanWood.net/Unicode.
  • Unicode fonts for Windows computers.
  • Windows Glyph List 4. Unicode ranges: U+0020 through U+00BB, U+00BC through U+017E, U+017F through U+1EF3, and U+2013 through U+FB02.
• Buy The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0 book from Amazon.com
• Character Sets and Encoding for Web Designers - UCS/UNICODE [UninetNews.com/other_standards/charset.php]
• DecodeUnicode.org
  • Part wiki. Uses Flash to show characters and blocks of charactes.
  • 'Unicode 4.0.1 encodes more than 50.000 characters on the Basic Multilingual Plane. Please help in decoding those characters! Right now there are 2853 submissions about 1190 characters.'
• FileFormat.info. "The Digital Rosetta Stone"
  • Unicode. Has info on the character level. EG: Unicode Character 'REVERSED ROTATED FLORAL HEART BULLET' (U+2619)
• International Components for Unicode [http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/index.jsp]
  • Charts, demos, and tools
• Macchiato.com
  • By Mark Davis. Funny links, programmer, and co-founder of Unicode.
  • Unicode Charts
• Stanford.edu/~laurik/fsmbook/faq/utf8.html
• The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
• Unicode [W]
  • Byte Order Mark
  • UTF-8
• Unicode and Keyboards on Windows [microsoft.com/globaldev/handson/dev/inputinwin.mspx]
• Unicode Consortium [Unicode.org]. The official site for Unicode. The Unicode Consortium was established in 1993 by a consortium of companies including Apple, Microsoft, HP, Digital and IBM.
  • Code Charts as PDFs. I like how they include code points for similar glyphs.
  • Online Edition of The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0.
  • Unicode 4.0.0
  • Unicode and the Web. A FAQ.
  • Unicode Character Name Index
• Unicode Greek and Mac OS X [st-socrates.berkeley.edu/~pinax/greekkeys/unicodeMac.html]
• Unicode support in your browser [home.att.net/~jameskass/]. Home of the Code2000 font for Unicode by James Kass.
• UTF-8 Sampler [Columbia.edu/kermit/utf8.html]

Wikipedia

• Character encoding
• ASCII
• Diacritic
• EBCDIC
• ISO/IEC_8859
  • ISO 8859-1
  • ISO/IEC_8859-2
• ISO/IEC_646
• List of XML and HTML character entity references
• Mac OS Roman
• Numeric character reference
• Unicode
  • Byte Order Mark
  • UTF-8
• Windows-1250
• Windows-1252

Miscellany

• bbsinc.com/iso8859.html
• Diacritics [diacritics.typo.cz]. Info/wiki on designing the diacritics for typefaces.
• Diffuse.org/CharGuide.html.
• Evolution of Alphabets.
  • Latin character set.
• AListApart.com/stories/emen/. Definitive guide to dashes, hyphens, spaces, and such. Includes grammatical use too.
• "Encoding" [http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N3353.html].
• FileFormat.info. "The Digital Rosetta Stone"
• cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars/ref.html. Character reference v entity reference.
• ISO-8859 briefing and resources.
• Latin 1 and Unicode characters in &ampersand; entities
• Languages, countries, and the charsets typically used for them. By the W3C.org.
• Mac OS Roman
  • Apple's MacRoman character set and equivalent Unicode and HTML characters [alanwood.net/demos/macroman.html]
  • Character Encoding [developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/Text/Text-30.html#HEADING30-9]
  • Oscar van Vlijmen's Home page [www1.tip.nl/~t876506/index.html]
    • Character Sets
    • Unicode Browser Display
    • Unicode UTF-8 encoding
  • hermessoft.com/newproject/codepages/maccpus.html
  • Mac OS Roman [W]
  • Roman.txt [unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/ROMAN.TXT]
• Markus Günther Kuhn has some nice stuff.
  • UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ for Unix/Linux
  • http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/ISO-10646-UTF-8.html
  • http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt
• Microsoft
  • Character sets [Microsoft.com/typography/unicode/cs.htm]
  • Microsoft.com/globaldev.
    • 1252 (Latin 1) - used in North & South America, Western Europe, Australia, Oceania, etc. Often referred to as ANSI.
    • 1250 (Central/Eastern Europe)
    • 1251 (Cyrillic/Russian)
    • 1253 (Greek)
    • 1254 (Turkish)
    • 1255 (Hebrew)
    • 1256 (Arabic)
    • 1257 (Baltic)
    • 1258 (Vietnam)
    • 874 (Thai)
    • 437 (US) - MS-DOS/OEM
    • 850 (Multilingual Latin I) - European MS-DOS/OEM
    • 932 (Japanese Shift-JIS)
    • 936 (Simplified Chinese GBK)
    • 950 (Traditional Chinese Big5)
    • 949 (Korean)
    • Keyboard Reference.
    • Scan Code Mapper for Windows. Tsk, tsk: Messing with the registry again?
    • Unicode and Keyboards on Windows.
    • Window Glyph List 4.
  • MSDN.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/intl/unicode_6bqr.asp?frame=true
• "MySQL and UTF-8 — no more question marks!" [bluetwanger.de/blog/2006/11/20/mysql-and-utf-8-no-more-question-marks/]
• "Should I upload my .html files in binary mode?"
• The HTML Document Character Set [natural-innovations.com/wa/doc-charset.html]
• The ISO 8859 Alphabet Soup [czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html].
• "Tips for Developing Non-English Web Sites"
• VisiBone Character References
• WPS: Projects [WPS.com/projects/]. By Tom Jennings.

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