- XML Spy Online Manual: Unicode Support - http://www.xmlspy.com/manual/unicodesupport.htm
Description of the Unicode and character-set encoding support in this XML editor. Includes detailed explanation of Unicode, character-set, and font issues with the various Windows OS versions. XML Spy can read, write, and convert XML files between all major character-set encodings and Unicode formats.
- Chinese XML FAQ (in English) - http://www.ascc.net/xml/en/utf-8/faq.html
FAQ about Chinese document encodings, and how they relate to XML. Also includes links and software.
- The Unicode Consortium - http://www.unicode.org/
The official Unicode web site provides extensive information and resources for programmers, implementers and others involved in computer globalization work.
- XER - XML Encoding Rules - http://asf.gils.net/xer/
Idea to standardize rules that would allow for information described in ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation) to be carried in XML.
- W3Schools.com: XML Encoding - http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_encoding.asp
XML documents can contain foreign characters like Norwegian æøå, or French êèé. To let your XML parser understand these characters, you should save your XML documents as Unicode.
- Expressing Simple Dublin Core in RDF/XML - http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmes-xml/
Explains how to encode the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set V1.1 (DCMES) in XML, provides a DTD to validate the documents and describes a method to link them from web pages.
- What ASN.1 can offer to XML - http://asn1.elibel.tm.fr/xml/
XML Encoding Rules for Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) and the ASN.1 Markup Language [ITU-T Rec. X.693 | ISO/IEC 8825-4].
- Character Encoding, XML, and MSXML - http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmlsdk30/htm/xmconcharacterencodingxmlandmsxml.asp
Excerpt from the Microsoft XML 3.0 - XML Developer's Guide page on character encoding.
- ISO 8859 Alphabet Soup - http://www.global-translation-services.com/iso8859.html
A commented graphical overview of the ISO 8859 character sets by Roman Czyborra.
- History of Unicode Standard(s) - http://www.unicodecharacter.com/unicode/standard.html
What document(s) define(d) the Unicode standard? This is a complete history of the Unicode standard from 1.0 to a preview of the (future) 3.0 and 4.0 versions to come.
- Entry-Level Unicode for XML - http://www.hackcraft.net/xmlUnicode/
A "just enough education to perform" guide to Unicode and ISO 10646 for authors of XML parsers and other software that processes XML.
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