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Unicode and Multilingual Support in Web Browsers and HTML
A guide to displaying thousands of foreign and special characters in Web pages, with the aid of Unicode, plus notes on suitable multilingual browsers, fonts, editors and other utilities. Includes lists of the characters in each Unicode range that can be used to test browsers and fonts.
http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/index.html
Unicode Example
Demonstrates the use of the Unicode Character Standard to store names and places from anywhere in the world, in any language.
http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/unicode-example-intro.html
Fontboard
Multilingual fonts and keyboard layouts for Unicode-compliant and pre-Unicode applications. Also contains information on CJK, Maltese, Esperanto, Arabic, Cyrillic and Hebrew and links to related resources.
http://zsigri.tripod.com/fontboard/
The Unicode Standard
The online edition of version 3.0 of this standard.
http://unicode.org/unicode/uni2book/
The Unicode Consortium
The official Unicode web site provides extensive information and resources for programmers, implementers and others involved in globalization work.
http://www.unicode.org/
Fingertipsoft: Character Set Converter
Converts multilingual text between Unicode and other popular character sets.
http://www.fingertipsoft.com/csconv/index.html
Sun Microsystems: Unicode Support in Solaris 7
Information for software developers interested in Unicode support in this operating environment, including an overview, multilingual support in Solaris, application development and codeset conversions.
http://www.sun.com/software/white-papers/wp-unicode/
Unicode Support in Your Browser
Test browser and operating system compatibility. Also downloadable Unicode fonts and links to other resources and references.
http://home.att.net/~jameskass/
Decimal, Hexadecimal Character Codes in HTML Unicode
An online tool for converting between multinational characters and their decimal and hexadecimal equivalents.
http://code.cside.com/3rdpage/us/unicode/converter.html
The Secret Life of Unicode
A look at some of Unicode's weak points and disadvantages.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/unicode/library/u-secret.html?dwzone=unicode
Unicode Translation to UTF-8
A short series of tables showing how Unicode translates into an eight bit format.
http://the-stewardship.org/research/unicode.htm
F4: ASCII - Unicode Bridge
Online service that converts ASCII text with simple codes for almost all accents in Romanized scripts to fully accented Unicode 4.0.
http://www.arp.nl/sw/f4v2/f4online.htm
Unicode Tutorial
A reference to Unicode terms and concepts aimed at a basic to intermediate level.
http://www.jbrowse.com/text/
UTF-8 Conversion Tool
Converts between Unicode characters, code points and UTF-8, displayed in various formats.
http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~richard/utf-8.html
Adobe: Unicode and Glyph Names
A description of PostScript glyph naming conventions in the context of Unicode.
http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/type/unicodegn.jsp
Wikipedia - Unicode
A description of the basic concept of Unicode plus links to related resources.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode
Free Online Unicode Character Map
Interactive map with buttons for selecting arbitrary Unicode characters for copying and pasting into other applications, plus search engines tools. Requires Javascript.
http://www.atm.ox.ac.uk/user/iwi/charmap.html
Unicode Fonts
Concise information on Unicode fonts for hardware and software developers.
http://www.unicodefonts.com/
Rosette
C++ library for Unicode from Basis Techology. The site also contains an overview of Unicode, technical information on database support and a free demonstration of the software.
http://unicode.basistech.com/
ConScript Unicode Registry
Information on block assignment in the Unicode Private Use Area.
http://www.egt.ie/standards/csur/
Linux Unicode How-to
How to adapt Linux systems to use UTF-8 encoding. (ftp)
ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/utf8/Unicode-HOWTO.html
Tackling a Daunting Task
Eugene Eric Kim reviews "Unicode: A Primer".
http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2000/09/book/
UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ
A comprehensive resource about Unicode and UTF-8 on Unix and Linux systems.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
TITUS
Browsers test for Unicode compatibility.
http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/unicode/unitest2.htm
UTF-8 Sampler
Examples of the UTF-8 Unicode encoding method demonstrating its ASCII-preserving properties.
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8.html
Why Unicode Won't Work on the Internet: Linguistic, Political and Technical Limitations
A paper outlining issues with encoding all the world's character sets within the limitations of the existing Unicode standards, and the possible impact this will have on East Asian languages.
http://www.hastingsresearch.com/net/04-unicode-limitations.shtml
Who doesn't know what Unicode is?
C-Kermit and Unicode issues explored.
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/unicode.html
IBM developerWorks: Unicode
A developer resource for building applications for a worldwide audience, with technical and editorial articles.
http://www.ibm.com/developer/unicode/
Demystifying Unicode
Information on technical aspects from SimulTrans.
http://www.simultrans.com/seminars/seminar199808.htm
International Unicode Conferences
Contains a variety of tutorials and details of conference sessions covering Unicode, the web, software and internationalization. Contains details of past conferences since 1996 and information about upcoming events.
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/conference/about-conf.html
Microsoft : Unicode Codepages
A list of common codepages with tables in text and graphical formats.
http://www.microsoft.com/OpenType/unicode/unicodecp.htm
Unicode, MBCS and Generic text conversion
A guide to using generic text functions to make the transition between character sets easier for C++, MFC and STL.
http://www.codeproject.com/cpp/unicode.asp
Zvon Character Search
Finds properties of Unicode characters and determines its usage in XML documents. It also enables search of HTML and MathML entities and searches based on visual similarity. A browse by scripts, blocks or digits is also available.
http://www.zvon.org/other/charSearch/PHP/search.php
Zvon Character Reference
A reference of visually similar characters and their Unicode values, which can be downloaded for off-line use.
http://www.zvon.org/xxl/characterReference/Output/index.html
Mac OS 8 and 9 Developer Documentation: Unicode Utilities
Utilities from Apple for the Mac OS environment. Some documents require Acrobat Reader.
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Carbon/text/UnicodeUtilities/unicodeutil.html
Sharmahd Computing UniPad
A Unicode plain text editor for the Windows NT and Windows 95 operating systems.
http://www.unipad.org/main/
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