Directory of Character Encoding Resources

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Information, resources and products related to international character encoding, national character sets and character conversion issues.

Subcategories

• Arabic
• CJKV
• Chinese
• Cyrillic
• Greek
• Hangul
• Hebrew
• Indic
• Japanese
• Korean
• Latin
• Native American
• Unicode
• Vietnamese

Resources in This Category

• 3rdpageSearch

  http://code.cside.com/3rdpage/
  Front end to several search engines and portals that allows you to enter queries in various character sets.

• A Brief History of Character Codes

  http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/characcodehist.html
  A concise history of the development of character encoding in Western and East Asian languages, including ASCII, EBCDIC, Unicode and TRON.

• ASCII and EBCDIC Compared

  http://www.dynamoo.com/technical/ascii-ebcdic.htm
  A comparison of two of these two basic encoding systems, with tables.

• Characters and Encodings

  http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars/
  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.

• Dan's Web Tips: Characters and Fonts

  http://webtips.dan.info/char.html
  Hints and tips about character sets and fonts in web development. Includes links to related resources.

• EKI Letter Database

  http://www.eki.ee/letter/
  Query character sets, encoding, codepages and Unicode information in an easy-to-use web form. Held at the Institute of the Estonian Language.

• HTML Document Representation

  http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/charset.html
  Chapter covering document character sets and encodings in HTML from the World Wide Web Consortium's HTML 4.0 Specification.

• HTML Validation: Using Character Encodings

  http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/charset.html
  How to validate HTML documents in various character encodings.

• IANA: Character Sets

  http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets
  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.

• ISO 639 Language Names

  http://xml.coverpages.org/iso639a.html
  The standard names for use in SGML and XML, including a complete list of language name codes.

• LangBox International

  http://www.langbox.com/
  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.

• MS Windows characters in HTML

  http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/windows-chars.html
  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.

• Tutorial: Shady Characters

  http://webreference.com/html/tutorial17/
  A tutorial that explains HTML character sets, character encodings and character references from Webreference.com.

• World Wide Web Consortium

  http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset.html
  Covers code tables, Unicode, HTML and XML and links to other resources and discusses internationalization and localization issues relating to character sets.

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