Character Encoding

ASCII and EBCDIC Compared
A comparison of two of these two basic encoding systems, with tables.
http://www.dynamoo.com/technical/ascii-ebcdic.htm

Basis Technology: Presentations and Papers
A wide range of articles on Unicode, East Asian localization and Internationalization issues.
http://www.basistech.com/news/presentations/index.html

Characters and Encodings
A tutorial on character code issues in digital processing and transfer of text data, on the Internet or otherwise. Includes tables and a detailed listing of control codes. In English and Finnish.
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars/

Chilkat Charset Conversion Component
A character set conversion component for Unicode, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Vietnamese and all Western languages.
http://www.chilkatsoft.com/ChilkatCharset.asp

Dan's Web Tips: Characters and Fonts
Hints and tips about character sets and fonts in web development. Includes links to related resources.
http://www.dantobias.com/webtips/char.html

An Early History of Character Set Standardization
Covers the beginnings of the ASCII standards from ASCII-1963 onwards and information on Cyrillic, Japanese, Korean, Thai and Vietnamese encoding systems, including various localized versions of EBCDIC. With tables and links to other resources.
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~dik/english/codes/stand.html

ECMA: Character Code Structure and Extension Techniques
Specifies the structure of ECMA-35, for 8-bit codes and 7-bit codes which provide for the coding of character sets, with a detailed PDF document.
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/ECMA-035.HTM

EKI Letter Database
Query character sets, encoding, codepages and Unicode information in an easy-to-use web form. Held at the Institute of the Estonian Language.
http://www.eki.ee/letter/

HTML Document Representation
Chapter covering document character sets and encodings in HTML from the World Wide Web Consortium's HTML 4.0 Specification.
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/charset.html

HTML Validation: Using Character Encodings
How to validate HTML documents in various character encodings.
http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/charset.html

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.
http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets

ISO 639 Language Names
The standard names for use in SGML and XML, including a complete list of language name codes.
http://xml.coverpages.org/iso639a.html

LangBox International
Codetables for ISO 8859-6, ASMO 449 plus, ASMO 708 (Arabic) and ISO 8859-8 (Hebrew) and further information about the company's work in multilingual UNIX.
http://www.langbox.com/

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.
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/windows-chars.html

3rdpageSearch
Front end to several search engines and portals that allows you to enter queries in various character sets.
http://code.cside.com/3rdpage/

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

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.
http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/

Tutorial: Shady Characters
A tutorial that explains HTML character sets, character encodings and character references from Webreference.com.
http://webreference.com/html/tutorial17/

WhatAsciiCode.com
Quick reference and searchable ASCII code and conversion tables.
http://www.whatasciicode.com

World Wide Web Consortium
Covers code tables, Unicode, HTML and XML and links to other resources and discusses internationalization and localization issues relating to character sets.
http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset.html

Xceed Binary Encoding Library
A library for Windows developers that allows applications to encode binary data and files into text and vice-versa.
http://www.xceedsoft.com/products/binEncod/