Unicode is the standard character encoding system that allows the correct display and entry of virtually all characters of every language in the world.
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- UTF-8 Encoding Table and Unicode Characters Reference table of Unicode code points, their UTF-8 encoding, corresponding HTML character entities and other information.
- The Unicode Consortium The official site with information and resources for programmers, implementers and others involved in globalization work.
- International Components for Unicode IBM's portable set of C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode support, internationalization, and globalization. Background information, user guide, API references, and developer information. [free use licence]
- The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets An article by Joel Spolsky that explains the basics of Unicode and common character encodings and their implications for programmers.
- Linux Unicode How-to How to adapt Linux systems to use UTF-8 encoding. (ftp)
- UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ A resource about Unicode and UTF-8 on Unix and Linux systems.
- TITUS Browsers test for Unicode compatibility.
- UTF-8 Sampler Examples of the UTF-8 Unicode encoding method demonstrating its ASCII-preserving properties.
- Why Unicode Won't Work on the Internet: Linguistic, Political and Technical Limitations 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.
- Who doesn't know what Unicode is? C-Kermit and Unicode issues explored.
- International Unicode Conferences Includes a variety of tutorials and details of conference sessions covering Unicode, the web, software and internationalization. Includes details of past conferences since 1996 and information about upcoming events.
- Unicode and Multilingual Support in Web Browsers and HTML 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.
- Unicode Example Demonstrates the use of the Unicode Character Standard to store names and places from anywhere in the world, in any language.
- Fontboard 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.
- Unicode Fonts Concise information on Unicode fonts for hardware and software developers.
- UTF-8 Conversion Tool Converts between Unicode characters, code points and UTF-8, displayed in various formats.
- Adobe: Unicode and Glyph Names A description of PostScript glyph naming conventions in the context of Unicode.
- Wikipedia - Unicode A description of the basic concept of Unicode plus links to related resources.
- ConScript Unicode Registry Information on block assignment in the Unicode Private Use Area.
- On the Goodness of Unicode Explains the purpose and use of Unicode.
- MyMyanmar Information on Unicode support for writing Myanmar text and related software/fonts.
- The Unicode Standard The online edition of version 4.1.0 of this standard.
- Unicode, MBCS and Generic text conversion A guide to using generic text functions to make the transition between character sets easier for C++, MFC and STL.
- Gallery of Unicode Fonts A gallery that displays samples of available Unicode fonts for dozens of different writing systems.
- Hello World or Καλημέρα κόσμε or こんにちは 世界 Paper by Bell Labs researchers Rob Pike and Ken Thompson explaining how they used UTF-8 to make Plan 9 the first operating system with Unicode support.
- The History of UTF-8 as Told by Rob Pike Rob Pike explains the history of how Ken Thompson invented UTF-8 and its first implementation in Plan 9.
- Characters vs. Bytes Tim Bray, co-editor of the XML standard, discusses various Unicode encodings and their pros and cons.
- Sharmahd Computing UniPad A Unicode plain text editor for the Windows NT and Windows 95 operating systems.
- Tackling a Daunting Task Eugene Eric Kim reviews "Unicode: A Primer".
- JavaScript has a Unicode problem · Mathias Bynens Write-up explains the pain points associated with Unicode in JavaScript, provides solutions for common problems, and explains how the upcoming ECMAScript 6 will improve the situation.
- Zvon Character Reference A reference of visually similar characters and their Unicode values.