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3rdpageSearch - Front end to several search engines and portals that allows you to enter queries in various character sets.

A Brief History of Character Codes - A concise history of the development of character encoding in Western and East Asian languages

An Early History of Character Set Standardization - Covers the beginnings of the ASCII standards from ASCII-1963 onwards and information on Cyrillic

ASCII and EBCDIC Compared - A comparison of two of these two basic encoding systems

Basis Technology: Presentations and Papers - A wide range of articles on Unicode

Character Set Issues beyond HTML3.2 - Internationalization issues beyond HTML3.2 and ISO-8859-1. Includes information on Baltic encodings.

Characters and Encodings - A tutorial on character code issues in digital processing and transfer of text data

Chilkat Charset Conversion Component - A character set conversion component for Unicode

Dan's Web Tips: Characters and Fonts - Hints and tips about character sets and fonts in web development. Includes links to related resources.

ECMA: Character Code Structure and Extension Techniques - Specifies the structure of ECMA-35

eGrannie: ASCII-EBCDIC chart - A side-by-side comparision of ASCII and EBCDIC encoding.

EKI Letter Database - Query character sets

GNU Aspell: Czyborra.com Mirror - Information on Latin and non-Latin encoding systems

HTML Document Representation - Chapter covering document character sets and encodings in HTML from the World Wide Web Consortium's HTML 4.0 Specification.

IANA: Character Sets - The official names for character sets that may be used in the Internet and referred to in Internet documentation - held at the Internet Assigned Number Authority.

ISO 639 Language Names - The standard names for use in SGML and XML

LangBox International - Codetables for ISO 8859-6

MS Windows characters in HTML - A review of the HTML authoring problems caused by some special characters which belong to MS Windows character set but not to ISO Latin 1. Includes technical details and substitution tables. In English and Finnish.

ScientificPublications.com: Czyborra.com Mirror - Mirror of Roman Czyborra's work on character sets and encoding systems. In English and German.

The Unicode Consortium - The official Unicode web site provides extensive information and resources for programmers

Tips & Techniques for Foreign Content on the Web - Pennsylvania State University's guide to reading and publishing different languages on the web. Includes details of various encoding systems and links.

Tutorial: Shady Characters - A tutorial that explains HTML character sets

World Wide Web Consortium - Covers code tables

Xceed Binary Encoding Library - A library for Windows developers that allows applications to encode binary data and files into text and vice-versa.