Further Character Encoding and Fonts Reference

A selection of further readings

• General
• Character Encoding Charts
• Character and Charset Names
• RFCs
• Character Encoding in HTML/CSS
• Software and Interactive Pages
• Fonts

General

Unicode Consortium - Homepage

[EN] http://www.unicode.org/

Unicode.org - What is Unicode?

[DE] http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html

Unicode.org - About the Unicode Standard

[EN] http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/standard.html

A tutorial on character code issues

[EN] Jukka Korpela http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html

Roman Czyborra

[DE/EN] I am the artist formerly known as czyborra at cs.tu-berlin.de where I studied computer science - informative and entertaining pages around and about Unicode It seems as though this site remains offline. Nevertheless I am reluctant to remove this link in the vain hope that this site will one day resurge. In the meantime you may refer to the following two links which mirror part of extinct czyborra.com http://czyborra.com/

The Global Character Set Unicode in the Unix Operating System

[DE/EN] Roman Czyborra

Unicode (ISO 10646) is the one-size-fits-all character encoding standard designed to clean up the mess of dozens of mutually incompatible ASCII extensions and special encodings and to allow the computer interchange of text in any of the world's writing systems.

http://www.unicodecharacter.com/

GNU Aspell: Czyborra.com Mirror

[EN]

Information on Latin and non-Latin encoding systems, codepages and character sets by Roman Czyborra.

http://aspell.net/charsets/

Alles über Unicode

[DE]

Auf diesen Seiten bieten wir Ihnen ausführliche Infos zum Thema Unicode an. Weiterhin finden Sie Tabellen mit Sonderzeichen vieler europäischer Sprachen mit lateinischer Schrift.

http://unicode.e-workers.de/

Alles über Unicode

[DE]

Über die Verwendung von Sonderzeichen im Internet

http://unicode.e-workers.de/sz_im_web.php

W3C - Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0

[EN] Fundamentals http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod/

W3C - Character sets & encodings in XHTML, HTML and CSS

[EN] Working Draft - Tutorial http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc.html

W3C - Authoring Techniques for XHTML & HTML Internationalization

[EN] Characters and Encodings 1.0 - Working Draft http://www.w3.org/International/geo/html-tech/tech-character.html

The Great Curly Brace Trace Chase

[EN]

Bob Bemer on the development of ASCII

http://www.bobbemer.com/BRACES.HTM

Character Encoding Charts

Code Charts

[EN]

The (pdf) charts in this list are arranged in code point order

http://www.unicode.org/charts/

Macchiato.com

[EN]

This page shows code charts for all of Unicode, with UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 values

http://www.macchiato.com/unicode/charts.html

Alan Wood's Unicode Resources

[EN]

Unicode and Multilingual Support in HTML, Fonts, Web Browsers and Other Applications

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

Alan Wood's Unicode Resources

[EN]

Unicode character ranges and the Unicode fonts that support them

http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fontsbyrange.html

ISO8859-1/HTML stuff

[EN] http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/iso8859/

ISO-8859 briefing and resources

[EN] http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/iso8859/iso8859-pointers.html

The EBCDIC Character Encoding - Table

[EN] http://www.legacyj.com/cobol/ebcdic.html

THE ASCII-EBCDIC Chart

[EN] http://www.natural-innovations.com/computing/asciiebcdic.html

Jim Price ASCII Chart

[EN]

Answers some of the most common questions & additional info

http://www.jimprice.com/jim-asc.htm

Character and Charset Names

IANA - Official names for character sets

[EN] http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets

IANA - List of Character Set Registrations not defined in RFCs

[EN] http://www.iana.org/assignments/charset-reg/index.htm

Unicode.org - Final Unicode 4.0 names list

[EN] http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/NamesList.txt

RFCs

RFC 2277 - IETF Policy on Character Sets and Languages

[EN] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2277.txt

RFC 2279 - UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646

[EN] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2279.txt

RFC 2281 - UTF-16, an encoding of ISO 10646

[EN] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2781.txt

Character Encoding in HTML/CSS

W3C Recommendation - HTML 4.01 Specification

[EN]

Specifying the direction of text and tables: the dir attribute

http://www.w3.org/TR/html40/struct/dirlang.html#h-8.2

W3C Recommendation - HTML 4.01 Specification

[EN]

Overriding the bidirectional algorithm: the BDO element

http://www.w3.org/TR/html40/struct/dirlang.html#h-8.2.4

W3C Note - Unicode in XML and other Markup Languages

[EN] http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-unicode-xml-20030613/

W3C Candidate Recommendation - CSS3 Text Module

[EN]

text layout features supported by CSS

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/#TextLayout

The Trouble With EM ’n EN (and Other Shady Characters)

[EN] Peter K. Sheerin

Most HTML References Are Wrong — I’ve lost count of all the books, articles, and websites that claim an em dash is “—”—but they’re all wrong. The entire range from  through Ÿ are invalid characters, and consequently should not be used.

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/emen/

Software and Interactive Pages

ListFont 1.2a

[EN]

ListFont lists all fonts installed on the computer

http://heiner-eichmann.de/software/listfont/listfont.htm

TTE - A TrueType Explorer

[EN]

a font tool for searching and exploring TrueType fonts

http://www3.sympatico.ca/chris.lamoureux2/

SC UniPad

[EN]

a Unicode plain text editor

http://www.unipad.org/main/

Institute of the Estonian Language

[EN]

Letter Database

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

International Components for Unicode Homepage

[EN]

The International Components for Unicode (ICU) libraries provide robust and full-featured Unicode services on a wide variety of platforms

http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/index.html

International Components for Unicode - Transform Demo

[EN]

This demo shows ICU transforms in action. Users can see the effect of various built-in and user written system transforms on text they type in. Rules for transforms may be viewed, edited, and saved for later use

http://oss.software.ibm.com/cgi-bin/icu/tr

Identify a font

[EN]

Identify a typeface by answering a series of simple questions about key features

http://www.identifont.com/identify.html

Fonts

AbstractFonts.com

[EN]

a huge font archive with about 10,000 fonts

http://www.abstractfonts.com/fonts/

Acid Fonts

[EN]

Over 4700 fonts for PC and Mac

http://www.acidfonts.com/

1001 Free fonts

[EN]

Over 3500 fonts for PC and Mac

http://www.1001freefonts.com/

FontFreak.com

[EN]

one of the largest free-/shareware font archive on the net.

http://www.fontfreak.com/index2.htm

anke-art.de

[DE]

eine kleine Auswahl individueller Fonts

http://www.anke-art.de/alle.htm

j-a-b.net - The Unicode Charset

[DE/EN]

Introduction to the Unicode Charset

http://www.j-a-b.net/web/char/char-unicode#Font01

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