Eugene Eric Kim reviews "Unicode: A Primer".

Information on block assignment in the Unicode Private Use Area.

Explains the purpose and use of Unicode.

Converts multilingual text between Unicode and other popular character sets.

Test browser and operating system compatibility. Also downloadable Unicode fonts and links to other resources and references.

How to adapt Linux systems to use UTF-8 encoding. (ftp)

A comprehensive resource about Unicode and UTF-8 on Unix and Linux systems.

Browsers test for Unicode compatibility.

Examples of the UTF-8 Unicode encoding method demonstrating its ASCII-preserving properties.

A paper outlining issues with encoding all the world's character sets within the limitations of the existing Unicode standards, and the possible impact this will have on East Asian languages.

C-Kermit and Unicode issues explored.

A developer resource for building applications for a worldwide audience, with technical and editorial articles.

Information on technical aspects from SimulTrans.

Contains a variety of tutorials and details of conference sessions covering Unicode, the web, software and internationalization. Contains details of past conferences since 1996 and information about upcoming events.

A list of common codepages with tables in text and graphical formats.

A guide to using generic text functions to make the transition between character sets easier for C++, MFC and STL.

Finds properties of Unicode characters and determines its usage in XML documents. It also enables search of HTML and MathML entities and searches based on visual similarity. A browse by scripts, blocks or digits is also available.

A reference of visually similar characters and their Unicode values, which can be downloaded for off-line use.

Utilities from Apple for the Mac OS environment. Some documents require Acrobat Reader.

A Unicode plain text editor for the Windows NT and Windows 95 operating systems.

A guide to displaying thousands of foreign and special characters in Web pages, with the aid of Unicode, plus notes on suitable multilingual browsers, fonts, editors and other utilities. Includes lists of the characters in each Unicode range that can be used to test browsers and fonts.

Demonstrates the use of the Unicode Character Standard to store names and places from anywhere in the world, in any language.

Multilingual fonts and keyboard layouts for Unicode-compliant and pre-Unicode applications. Also contains information on CJK, Maltese, Esperanto, Arabic, Cyrillic and Hebrew and links to related resources.

The online edition of version 3.0 of this standard.

An online tool for converting between multinational characters and their decimal and hexadecimal equivalents.

A look at some of Unicode's weak points and disadvantages.

Interactive map with buttons for selecting arbitrary Unicode characters for copying and pasting into other applications, plus search engines tools. Requires Javascript.

Concise information on Unicode fonts for hardware and software developers.

A short series of tables showing how Unicode translates into an eight bit format.

Online service that converts ASCII text with simple codes for almost all accents in Romanized scripts to fully accented Unicode 4.0.

A reference to Unicode terms and concepts aimed at a basic to intermediate level.

Converts between Unicode characters, code points and UTF-8, displayed in various formats.

A description of PostScript glyph naming conventions in the context of Unicode.

A description of the basic concept of Unicode plus links to related resources.

A list of the standard Unicode blocks.

Interactive map with buttons for selecting arbitrary Unicode characters for copying and pasting into other applications, plus search engines tools. Requires Javascript.

Information for software developers interested in Unicode support in this operating environment, including an overview, multilingual support in Solaris, application development and codeset conversions.