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Adobe: Unicode and Glyph Names - http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/type/unicodegn.jsp
A description of PostScript glyph naming conventions in the context of Unicode.

ConScript Unicode Registry - http://www.evertype.com/standards/csur/
Information on block assignment in the Unicode Private Use Area.

Decimal, Hexadecimal Character Codes in HTML Unicode - http://code.cside.com/3rdpage/us/unicode/converter.html
An online tool for converting between multinational characters and their decimal and hexadecimal equivalents.

Demystifying Unicode - http://www.simultrans.com/seminars/seminar199808.htm
Information on technical aspects from SimulTrans.

Fingertipsoft: Character Set Converter - http://www.fingertipsoft.com/csconv/index.html
Converts multilingual text between Unicode and other popular character sets.

Fontboard - http://zsigri.tripod.com/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.

Free Online Unicode Character Map - http://www-atm.physics.ox.ac.uk/user/iwi/charmap.html
Interactive map with buttons for selecting arbitrary Unicode characters for copying and pasting into other applications, plus search engines tools. Requires Javascript.

http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/unicode/unitest2.htm - http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/unicode/unitest2.htm
Browsers test for Unicode compatibility.

IBM developerWorks: Unicode - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/unicode
A developer resource for building applications for a worldwide audience, with technical and editorial articles.

International Components for Unicode - http://www.icu-project.org/
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]

International Unicode Conferences - http://www.unicode.org/unicode/conference/about-conf.html
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.

Linux Unicode How-to - ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/utf8/Unicode-HOWTO.html
How to adapt Linux systems to use UTF-8 encoding. (ftp)

Microsoft : Unicode Codepages - http://www.microsoft.com/OpenType/unicode/unicodecp.htm
A list of common codepages with tables in text and graphical formats.

MyMyanmar - http://www.mymyanmar.net
Information on Unicode support for writing Myanmar text and related software/fonts.

On the Goodness of Unicode - http://tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/06/Unicode
Explains the purpose and use of Unicode.

Sharmahd Computing UniPad - http://www.unipad.org/main/
A Unicode plain text editor for the Windows NT and Windows 95 operating systems.

Tackling a Daunting Task - http://www.ddj.com/architect/184413678
Eugene Eric Kim reviews "Unicode: A Primer".

The Secret Life of Unicode - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/u-secret.html
A look at some of Unicode's weak points and disadvantages.

The Unicode Consortium - http://www.unicode.org/
The official site with information and resources for programmers, implementers and others involved in globalization work.

The Unicode Standard - http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.1.0/
The online edition of version 4.1.0 of this standard.

Unicode and Multilingual Support in Web Browsers and HTML - http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/index.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 Blocks - http://www.ascendercorp.com/unicodeblocks.html
A list of the standard Unicode blocks.

Unicode Example - http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/unicode-example-intro.html
Demonstrates the use of the Unicode Character Standard to store names and places from anywhere in the world, in any language.

Unicode Fonts - http://www.unicodefonts.com/
Concise information on Unicode fonts for hardware and software developers.

Unicode Tutorial - http://www.jbrowse.com/text/
A reference to Unicode terms and concepts aimed at a basic to intermediate level.

Unicode, MBCS and Generic text conversion - http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/unicode.aspx
A guide to using generic text functions to make the transition between character sets easier for C++, MFC and STL.

UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ - http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
A resource about Unicode and UTF-8 on Unix and Linux systems.

UTF-8 Conversion Tool - http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~richard/utf-8.html
Converts between Unicode characters, code points and UTF-8, displayed in various formats.

UTF-8 Encoding Table and Unicode characters - http://www.utf8-chartable.de/
Unicode code points and their UTF-8 encoding.

UTF-8 Sampler - http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8.html
Examples of the UTF-8 Unicode encoding method demonstrating its ASCII-preserving properties.

Who doesn't know what Unicode is? - http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/unicode.html
C-Kermit and Unicode issues explored.

Why Unicode Won't Work on the Internet: Linguistic, Political and Technical Limitations - http://www.hastingsresearch.com/net/04-unicode-limitations.shtml
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.

Wikipedia - Unicode - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode
A description of the basic concept of Unicode plus links to related resources.

Zvon Character Reference - http://www.zvon.org/xxl/characterReference/Output/index.html
A reference of visually similar characters and their Unicode values, which can be downloaded for off-line use.

Zvon Character Search - http://www.zvon.org/other/charSearch/PHP/search.php
Finds properties of Unicode characters and determines its usage in XML documents. It also enables search of HTML and MathML entities and searches based on visual similarity. A browse by scripts, blocks or digits is also available.

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