Character encoding

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).

Links

Specifications

(some)

• UniCode Home Page (includes for example code-charts and the Unicode and the Web FAQ)
• Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Fundamentals (W3C Recommendation 2005).
• Unicode in XML and other Markup Languages (W3C Technical Report)
• W3C I18N GEO Working Group

Charts

• IANA Character Sets table for the Internet
• Unicode 4.1.0 Chart
• Unicode Character Code Charts (PDF files)

HTML specific

• HTM entities table
• Character Converter(Iain Tucker)
• ISO8859-1 (Latin-1) (HEX/Dec/Entities)
• iso8859-1 Table
• Table of character entity references in HTML 4
• ASCII - ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1)Table with HTML Entity Names
• The ISO 8859 Alphabet Soup

See HTML links for other HTML-related links.

Online converters

• Text to UTF-8 or HTML Entities Tool
• Unicode (UTF-8) to HTML entity online converter
• UTF Converter
• Converter for funny characters into the proper HTML

Tutorials

• Characters and encodings by Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, very good reading ! See e.g. A tutorial on character code issues and On the use of some MS Windows characters in HTML
• 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.

• Help:Multilingual support
• Indic scripts (as an example)

More general Wikipedia entries

• Wikipedia Character Encoding
• Wikipedia UniCode
• Wikipedia UTF-8

Internationalisation and Localisation

Internationalisation (edutech wiki en français)