Knowledge: character encoding
See Also:
- computers → data formats
- computers → data formats → markup languages → xml → encoding
- computers → software → globalization → character encoding → latin → ascii
- computers → software → globalization → fonts
Links
- HTML Validation: Using Character Encodings
http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/charset.html - How to validate HTML documents in various character encodings.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Dan's Web Tips: Characters and Fonts
http://www.dantobias.com/webtips/char.html - Hints and tips about character sets and fonts in web development. Includes links to related resources.
- Xceed Binary Encoding Library
http://www.xceedsoft.com/products/binEncod/ - A library for Windows developers that allows applications to encode binary data and files into text and vice-versa.
- Tutorial: Shady Characters
http://webreference.com/html/tutorial17/ - A tutorial that explains HTML character sets, character encodings and character references from Webreference.com.
- 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.
- An Early History of Character Set Standardization
http://www.cwi.nl/~dik/english/codes/stand.html - 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Basis Technology: Presentations and Papers
http://www.basistech.com/news/presentations/index.html - A wide range of articles on Unicode, East Asian localization and Internationalization issues.
- ASCII and EBCDIC Compared
http://www.dynamoo.com/technical/ascii-ebcdic.htm - A comparison of two of these two basic encoding systems, with tables.
- eGrannie: ASCII-EBCDIC chart
http://www.egrannie.com/cheatsheets/asciiebcdic.html - A side-by-side comparison of ASCII and EBCDIC encoding.
- Chilkat Charset Conversion Component
http://www.chilkatsoft.com/ChilkatCharset.asp - A character set conversion component for Unicode, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Vietnamese and all Western languages.
- ECMA: Character Code Structure and Extension Techniques
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/ECMA-035.HTM - Specifies the structure of ECMA-35, for 8-bit codes and 7-bit codes which provide for the coding of character sets, with a detailed PDF document.
- 3rdpageSearch
http://code.cside.com/3rdpage/ - Front end to several search engines and portals that allows you to enter queries in various character sets.
- Tips & Techniques for Foreign Content on the Web
http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/ - Pennsylvania State University's guide to reading and publishing different languages on the web. Includes details of various encoding systems and links.
- ScientificPublications.com: Czyborra.com Mirror
http://www.unicodecharacter.com/ - Mirror of Roman Czyborra's work on character sets and encoding systems. In English and German.
- WhatAsciiCode.com
http://www.whatasciicode.com - Quick reference and searchable ASCII code and conversion tables.
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