Character encoding

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## Contents

* 1 Definition
* 2 Links
* 2.1 Specifications
* 2.2 Charts
* 2.3 Online converters
* 2.4 Tutorials
* 2.5 URL encoding
* 2.6 Internationalisation and Localisation

## Definition[edit | edit source]

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).

See also: webdings and wingdings

## Links[edit | edit source]

### Specifications[edit | edit source]

(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[edit | edit source]

* 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[edit | edit source]

* 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[edit | edit source]

* The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) by Joel Spolsky, October 08, 2003
* On the Goodness of Unicode by Tim Bray
* Character encodings in HTML and CSS (W3C tutorial)
* 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

### URL encoding[edit | edit source]

* URL Encoding (or what are those " " codes in URLs?') by Brian Wilson

### Internationalisation and Localisation[edit | edit source]

Internationalisation (edutech wiki en français)