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The official Unicode web site provides extensive information and resources for programmers, implementers and others involved in globalization work.
www.unicode.org
Fingertipsoft: Character Set Converter
Converts multilingual text between Unicode and other popular character sets.
www.fingertipsoft.com
How to adapt Linux systems to use UTF-8 encoding. (ftp)
Eugene Eric Kim reviews "Unicode: A Primer".
www.webtechniques.com
A comprehensive resource about Unicode and UTF-8 on Unix and Linux systems.
www.cl.cam.ac.uk
Browsers test for Unicode compatibility.
titus.uni-frankfurt.de
Examples of the UTF-8 Unicode encoding method demonstrating its ASCII-preserving properties.
www.columbia.edu
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.
www.hastingsresearch.com
Who doesn't know what Unicode is?
C-Kermit and Unicode issues explored.
www.columbia.edu
Information on technical aspects from SimulTrans.
www.simultrans.com
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.
www.unicode.org
A list of common codepages with tables in text and graphical formats.
www.microsoft.com
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.
www.codeproject.com
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.
www.zvon.org
A reference of visually similar characters and their Unicode values, which can be downloaded for off-line use.
www.zvon.org