Resources
Character sets
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- → The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets
- On encodings and character sets.
- Unicode Code Converter
- 24-Feb-06 by Richard Ishida
- This page helps you convert between characters, Unicode code point numbers, UTF-8 and UTF-16 code units in hex, and Numeric Character References (hex and decimal). Just add one type of data, press tab, and see all the corresponding values.
- 'UniView' Unicode database viewer
- 24-Feb-06 by Richard Ishida
- An XHTML-based application to look up characters, character blocks, paste in and discover unknown characters, store your own info about characters, search on character names, do hex/dec/ncr conversions, highlight character types, etc. etc.
- → Guide to character codes
- A handy set of pages covering the most common character sets and character codes, covering maths, symbols and greek. Annotated for some than fail to display in MS IE
- → Tutorial: Character sets & encodings in XHTML, HTML and CSS
- Provides advice in the following areas: choosing an encoding for XHTML/HTML documents; when and how to declare the character encoding (charset) for documents using XHTML/HTML and CSS; aspects of serving and coding XHTML/HTML files that affect the above; when and how to use escapes and entities to represent characters.
- → The Unicode Database
- Characters in different order: By number/block, category, bidi-class and additional properties. The version of each codepoint is shown - helpful with fonts.
- → Alan Wood's Unicode resources
- Various lists of Unicode characters. Useful for arrows and the like in your pages without employing images.
- → Unicode Charts
- Ever wanted to know about bopomofo, kangxi radicals or high surrogates? The Unicode site has it all...
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