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== Definition ==
== Definition ==


This article focuses on character encoding.
See also: [[Codec]] (Encoding/decoding of compression formats that for simple files, archive files or files with multiple contents (e.g. in [[multimedia container format]]s).
See also: [[webdings and wingdings]]


== Links ==
== Links ==
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=== Charts ===
=== Charts ===


* [http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets IANA Character Sets table for the Internet]
* [http://www.macchiato.com/unicode/chart/ Unicode 4.1.0 Chart]
* [http://www.macchiato.com/unicode/chart/ Unicode 4.1.0 Chart]
* [http://www.unicode.org/charts/ Unicode Character Code Charts ] (PDF files)
* [http://www.unicode.org/charts/ Unicode Character Code Charts ] (PDF files)
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* [http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/guide/entities.html Table of character entity references in HTML 4]
* [http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/guide/entities.html Table of character entity references in HTML 4]
* [http://www.bbsinc.com/iso8859.html ASCII - ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1)Table with HTML Entity Names ]
* [http://www.bbsinc.com/iso8859.html ASCII - ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1)Table with HTML Entity Names ]
* [http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html The ISO 8859 Alphabet Soup ]


See [[HTML links]] for other HTML-related links.


=== Online converters ===
=== Online converters ===
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* [http://www.greywyvern.com/code/php/utf8_html Text to UTF-8 or HTML Entities Tool]
* [http://www.greywyvern.com/code/php/utf8_html Text to UTF-8 or HTML Entities Tool]
* [http://konieczny.be/unicode.html  Unicode (UTF-8) to HTML entity online converter]
* [http://konieczny.be/unicode.html  Unicode (UTF-8) to HTML entity online converter]
* [http://www.macchiato.com/unicode/convert.html UTF Converter]
* [http://www.foxinternet.co.uk/keyboard.html Converter for funny characters into the proper HTML]


=== Tutorials ===
=== Tutorials ===


* [http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars/index.html Characters and encodings] by Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, very good reading ! See e.g.
* [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)] by Joel Spolsky, October 08, 2003
[http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html A tutorial on character code issues] and [http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/windows-chars.html On the use of some MS Windows characters in HTML]  
* [http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/06/Unicode On the Goodness of Unicode] by Tim Bray
* [http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/11176.htm HTML and Browsers] Character encoding, entity references and UTF-8
* [http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc/ Character encodings in HTML and CSS] (W3C tutorial)
* [http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars/index.html Characters and encodings] by Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, very good reading ! See e.g. [http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html A tutorial on character code issues] and [http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/windows-chars.html On the use of some MS Windows characters in HTML]  
* [http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/11176.htm HTML and Browsers] Character encoding, entity references and UTF-8. Good short tutorial.
 
; Some Wikipedia entries regarding Wikipedia contents
Wikipedia is a good example that shows how modern websites can deal with most character sets.
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Multilingual_support Help:Multilingual support]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Enabling_complex_text_support_for_Indic_scripts Indic scripts] (as an example)
 
;More general Wikipedia entries
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encoding Wikipedia Character Encoding]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode Wikipedia UniCode]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode Wikipedia UniCode]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 Wikipedia UTF-8]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 Wikipedia UTF-8]
* [http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html The ISO 8859 Alphabet Soup ]


=== URL encoding ===
* [http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm URL Encoding] (or what are those " " codes in URLs?') by Brian Wilson
=== Internationalisation and Localisation  ===


=== URL encoding ===


* [http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm URL Encoding] (or what are those " " codes in URLs?') by Brian Wilson
[[:fr:Internationalisation|Internationalisation]] (edutech wiki en français)




[[Category: Technologies]]
[[fr:encodage de caractères]]
[[Category: Web authoring]]

Latest revision as of 16:07, 19 January 2011

Draft

Definition

This article focuses on character encoding.

See also: Codec (Encoding/decoding of compression formats that for simple files, archive files or files with multiple contents (e.g. in multimedia container formats).

See also: webdings and wingdings

Links

Specifications

(some)

Charts

HTML specific

See HTML links for other HTML-related links.

Online converters

Tutorials

Some Wikipedia entries regarding Wikipedia contents

Wikipedia is a good example that shows how modern websites can deal with most character sets.

More general Wikipedia entries

URL encoding

  • URL Encoding (or what are those " " codes in URLs?') by Brian Wilson

Internationalisation and Localisation

Internationalisation (edutech wiki en français)