>> last uploaded dec 28, 2005 |
new sites are at the bottom of each category. moockmarks are also as a single netscape bookmarks file. (note: right now i'm leaving in dead links for historical purposes. one day i might overhaul everything and add an option to not view dead links.)
- character encoding
iso 8859 alphabet soup
- a description of the iso 8859 character families which are today's standard 8 bit derivitives of the original ascii. by roman czyborra.
- iso latin 1 character repertoire
- excellent, in depth coverage of the characters in iso 8859-1, or latin 1. latin1 is the extended 8-bit version of ascii used to represent north american and western european languages, and as of the year 2000, still the default character encoding for most western web browsers. by jukka korpela.
- iso 646 (good old ascii)
- a description of the history of ascii which explains its roots, its 7-bit implementation, and its progression to iso 8859 and unicode.
- unicode official homepage
- main info centre of the unicode consortium, the group that develops and maintains the world's standard international character encoding system, unicode. pretty technical stuff...not too much of it is lay-person friendly.
- a tutorial on character code issues
- a highly informative, thorough article on the basics of character representation in computers. includes ascii, latin1, and unicode examples, plus lots of great info for character encoding newbies. by jukka korpela
- on the use of some mw windows characters in html
- if you've ever wondered whether it is really ok to use a windows em dash in an ms-word document that may end up on a mac or if you ever worried whether or not typing alt+0153 is really a legitimate way to get a (tm) symbol onto a web page, read this article by jukka korpela.
