links - unicode

General Info

• All about Unicode    http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/06/06/all-about-unicode-utf8-character-sets/ A very fine explanation of Unicode, with coding examples. Smashing Magazine : June 2006
• The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html "if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine. I swear I will. And one more thing: IT'S NOT THAT HARD." Joel on Software : 8 October 2003
• Unicode and Multilingual Support in HTML, Fonts, Web Browsers and Other Applications http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/ Lots of good information about Unicode, fonts, editors, and more Alan Wood : 2009
• Unicode Character Database (UCD) http://www.unicode.org/ucd/ “The Unicode Character Database (UCD) consists of a number of data files listing character properties and related data along with a documentation file that explains the organization of the database and the format and meaning of the data in the files.” Unicode.org : 2010
• Unicode Consortium http://www.unicode.org/ The organization responsible for defining the Unicode character set. Explanations, FAQ, glossary Unicode Consortium : 2010
• UTF-8: The Secret of Character Encoding   http://htmlpurifier.org/docs/enduser-utf8.html Very nice readable explanation of UTF-8, programming issues, etc. HTML Purifier : 200x

Database

• Unicode in databases - Search Google http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=database+collation+unicode A Google search for "database collation unicode" Google : 2009

Editors

• BabelPad   http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelPad.html BabelPad Unicode Text Editor. BabelStone : 2009

Web Development

• Creating Multi-lingual web pages: Unicode Support in HTML, HTML Editors, and Web Browsers http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/htmlunicode.html “Unicode is designed to allow single documents to contain characters or text from many scripts and languages, and to allow those documents to be used on computers with operating systems in any language and still remain intelligible. It is therefore ideally suited to the World Wide Web.” Alan Wood : 2007
• Developing Non-English Web Sites with Unicode http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/ The basics of Unicode for foreign language and what kinds of utilities are needed for foreign language support. A great resource collecting everything you need to write web pages in many different scripts. :

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