Character Encoding - Globalization

1 HTML Document Representation

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/charset.html

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Chapter covering document character sets and encodings in HTML from the World Wide Web Consortium′s HTML 4.0 Specification.

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2 Characters and Encodings

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

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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.

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3 ASCII and EBCDIC Compared

http://www.dynamoo.com/technical/ascii-ebcdic.htm

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A comparison of two of these two basic encoding systems, with tables. ASCII is the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, also known as ANSI X3.4. There are many variants of this standard, typically to allow different code pages for language encoding, but they all basically follow the same format.

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4 A Brief History of Character Codes

http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/characcodehist.html

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A concise history of the development of character encoding in Western and East Asian languages, including ASCII, EBCDIC, Unicode and TRON.

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5 The Unicode Consortium

http://www.unicode.org/

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The unicode consortium and the unicode standard. The official Unicode web site provides extensive information and resources for programmers, implementers and others involved in globalization work.

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6 Globalzeichensatz Unicode

http://www.unicodecharacter.com/

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Im Schriftbereich ist Unix ist trotz vielfältiger qualitativ hochwertiger komplexer Mechanismen. Mirror of Roman Czyborra′s work on character sets and encoding systems. In English and German.

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7 3rdpageSearch

http://code.cside.com/3rdpage/

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Front end to several search engines and portals that allows you to enter queries in various character sets. Offers a multilingual search tool for entering specific language characters in the search box from a table of special characters in various character sets.

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8 ISO 639 Language Names

http://xml.coverpages.org/iso639a.html

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The standard names for use in SGML and XML, including a complete list of language name codes. This document contains information relevant to ′Code for the Representation of the Names of Languages. From ISO 639, revised 1989.′ and is part of the Cover Pages resource. The Cover Pages is a comprehensive Web-accessible reference collection supporting the SGML/XML family of (meta) markup language standards and their application. The principal objective in this public access knowledgebase is to promote and enable the use of open, interoperable standards-based solutions which protect digital information and enhance the integrity of communication. A secondary objective in The Cover Pages is to provide reference material on enabling technologies compatible with descriptive markup language standards and applications: object modeling, semantic nets, ontologies, authority lists, document production systems, and conceptual modeling. The reference collection contains over 9000 documents covering more than 700 topics on markup language technologies.

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9 EKI Letter Database

http://www.eki.ee/letter/

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Query character sets, encoding, codepages and Unicode information in an easy-to-use web form. Held at the Institute of the Estonian Language.

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