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HTML Validation: Using Character Encodings
How to validate HTML documents in various character encodings.
www.htmlhelp.com
Chapter covering document character sets and encodings in HTML from the World Wide Web Consortium's HTML 4.0 Specification.
www.w3.org
Covers code tables, Unicode, HTML and XML and links to other resources and discusses internationalization and localization issues relating to character sets.
www.w3.org
Query character sets, encoding, codepages and Unicode information in an easy-to-use web form. Held at the Institute of the Estonian Language.
www.eki.ee
Dan's Web Tips: Characters and Fonts
Hints and tips about character sets and fonts in web development. Includes links to related resources.
www.dantobias.com
A library for Windows developers that allows applications to encode binary data and files into text and vice-versa.
www.xceedsoft.com
A tutorial that explains HTML character sets, character encodings and character references from Webreference.com.
webreference.com
A tutorial on character code issues in digital processing and transfer of text data, on the Internet or otherwise. Includes tables and a detailed listing of control codes. In English and Finnish.
www.cs.tut.fi
An Early History of Character Set Standardization
Covers the beginnings of the ASCII standards from ASCII-1963 onwards and information on Cyrillic, Japanese, Korean, Thai and Vietnamese encoding systems, including various localized versions of EBCDIC. With tables and links to other resources.
www.cwi.nl
The standard names for use in SGML and XML, including a complete list of language name codes.
xml.coverpages.org
A review of the HTML authoring problems caused by some special characters which belong to MS Windows character set but not to ISO Latin 1. Includes technical details and substitution tables. In English and Finnish.
www.cs.tut.fi
A Brief History of Character Codes
A concise history of the development of character encoding in Western and East Asian languages, including ASCII, EBCDIC, Unicode and TRON.tronweb.super-nova.co.jp
Codetables for ISO 8859-6, ASMO 449 plus, ASMO 708 (Arabic) and ISO 8859-8 (Hebrew) and further information about the company's work in multilingual UNIX.
www.langbox.com
The official names for character sets that may be used in the Internet and referred to in Internet documentation - held at the Internet Assigned Number Authority.
www.iana.org
Basis Technology: Presentations and Papers
A wide range of articles on Unicode, East Asian localization and Internationalization issues.
www.basistech.com