Directory of Unicode Resources

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Unicode is the standard character encoding system that allows the correct display and entry of virtually all characters of every language in the world.

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• Adobe: Unicode and Glyph Names

  http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/type/unicodegn.jsp
  A description of PostScript glyph naming conventions in the context of Unicode.

• Characters vs. Bytes

  http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/26/UTF
  Tim Bray, co-editor of the XML standard, discusses various Unicode encodings and their pros and cons.

• ConScript Unicode Registry

  http://www.evertype.com/standards/csur/
  Information on block assignment in the Unicode Private Use Area.

• Fontboard

  http://zsigri.tripod.com/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.

• Gallery of Unicode Fonts

  http://wazu.jp/
  A gallery that displays samples of available Unicode fonts for dozens of different writing systems.

• Hello World or Καλημέρα κόσμε or こんにちは 世界

  http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/utf
  Paper by Bell Labs researchers Rob Pike and Ken Thompson explaining how they used UTF-8 to make Plan 9 the first operating system with Unicode support.

• International Components for Unicode

  http://site.icu-project.org/
  IBM's portable set of C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode support, internationalization, and globalization. Background information, user guide, API references, and developer information. [free use licence]

• International Unicode Conferences

  http://www.unicode.org/unicode/conference/about-conf.html
  Includes a variety of tutorials and details of conference sessions covering Unicode, the web, software and internationalization. Includes details of past conferences since 1996 and information about upcoming events.

• JavaScript has a Unicode problem · Mathias Bynens

  http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-unicode
  Write-up explains the pain points associated with Unicode in JavaScript, provides solutions for common problems, and explains how the upcoming ECMAScript 6 will improve the situation.

• Linux Unicode How-to

  ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/utf8/Unicode-HOWTO.html
  How to adapt Linux systems to use UTF-8 encoding. (ftp)

• MyMyanmar

  http://www.mymyanmar.net/
  Information on Unicode support for writing Myanmar text and related software/fonts.

• On the Goodness of Unicode

  http://tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/06/Unicode
  Explains the purpose and use of Unicode.

• Sharmahd Computing UniPad

  http://www.unipad.org/
  A Unicode plain text editor for the Windows NT and Windows 95 operating systems.

• Tackling a Daunting Task

  http://www.drdobbs.com/bookmarks-tackling-a-daunting-task-web/184413678
  Eugene Eric Kim reviews "Unicode: A Primer".

• The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets

  http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
  An article by Joel Spolsky that explains the basics of Unicode and common character encodings and their implications for programmers.

• The History of UTF-8 as Told by Rob Pike

  http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history
  Rob Pike explains the history of how Ken Thompson invented UTF-8 and its first implementation in Plan 9.

• The Unicode Consortium

  http://www.unicode.org/
  The official site with information and resources for programmers, implementers and others involved in globalization work.

• The Unicode Standard

  http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.1.0/
  The online edition of version 4.1.0 of this standard.

• TITUS

  http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/unicode/unitest2.htm
  Browsers test for Unicode compatibility.

• Unicode and Multilingual Support in Web Browsers and HTML

  http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/index.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.

• Unicode Example

  http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/unicode-example-intro.html
  Demonstrates the use of the Unicode Character Standard to store names and places from anywhere in the world, in any language.

• Unicode Fonts

  http://www.unicodefonts.com/
  Concise information on Unicode fonts for hardware and software developers.

• Unicode, MBCS and Generic text conversion

  http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/unicode.aspx
  A guide to using generic text functions to make the transition between character sets easier for C++, MFC and STL.

• UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ

  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
  A resource about Unicode and UTF-8 on Unix and Linux systems.

• UTF-8 Conversion Tool

  http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~richard/utf-8.html
  Converts between Unicode characters, code points and UTF-8, displayed in various formats.

• UTF-8 Encoding Table and Unicode Characters

  http://www.utf8-chartable.de/
  Reference table of Unicode code points, their UTF-8 encoding, corresponding HTML character entities and other information.

• UTF-8 Sampler

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8.html
  Examples of the UTF-8 Unicode encoding method demonstrating its ASCII-preserving properties.

• Who doesn't know what Unicode is?

  http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/unicode.html
  C-Kermit and Unicode issues explored.

• Why Unicode Won't Work on the Internet: Linguistic, Political and Technical Limitations

  http://www.hastingsresearch.com/net/04-unicode-limitations.shtml
  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.

• Wikipedia - Unicode

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode
  A description of the basic concept of Unicode plus links to related resources.

• Zvon Character Reference

  http://www.zvon.org/comp/s/unicode_reference/
  A reference of visually similar characters and their Unicode values.

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