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

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

Sun Microsystems: Unicode Support in Solaris 7 Information for software developers interested in Unicode support in this operating environment, including an overview, multilingual support in Solaris, application development and codeset conversions. http://www.sun.com/software/white-papers/wp-unicode/

Unicode Support in Your Browser Test browser and operating system compatibility. Also downloadable Unicode fonts and links to other resources and references. http://home.att.net/~jameskass/

Rosette C++ library for Unicode from Basis Techology. The site also contains an overview of Unicode, technical information on database support and a free demonstration of the software. http://unicode.basistech.com/

ConScript Unicode Registry Information on block assignment in the Unicode Private Use Area. http://www.egt.ie/standards/csur/

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

Tackling a Daunting Task Eugene Eric Kim reviews "Unicode: A Primer". http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2000/09/book/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

International Unicode Conferences Contains a variety of tutorials and details of conference sessions covering Unicode, the web, software and internationalization. Contains details of past conferences since 1996 and information about upcoming events. http://www.unicode.org/unicode/conference/about-conf.html

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

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

Zvon Character Search 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. http://www.zvon.org/other/charSearch/PHP/search.php

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