A tutorial on character code issues in digital processing and transfer of text data (on the Internet or otherwise). This document tries to clarify the concepts of character repertoire, character code, and character encoding (avoiding the te...More
A tutorial on character code issues in digital processing and transfer of text data (on the Internet or otherwise). This document tries to clarify the concepts of character repertoire, character code, and character encoding (avoiding the term character set, which is used confusingly). ASCII, ISO 646, ISO 8859 (ISO Latin), Windows character set, ISO 10646 (UCS), Unicode, UTF-8, and UTF-7 are used as examples.
How to use national characters, such as Greek
or Cyrillic letters, or Chinese ideographs,
as well as mathematical symbols
or any non-ASCII character in general in HTML documents.
A practical suggestion, aimed at achieving maximal operab...
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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 rang...