Character Encoding Websites

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.

How to validate HTML documents in various character encodings.

Covers code tables, Unicode, HTML and XML and links to other resources and discusses internationalization and localization issues relating to character sets.

Query character sets, encoding, codepages and Unicode information in an easy-to-use web form. Held at the Institute of the Estonian Language.

A tutorial that explains HTML character sets, character encodings and character references from Webreference.com.

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.

The standard names for use in SGML and XML, including a complete list of language name codes.

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.

A concise history of the development of character encoding in Western and East Asian languages, including ASCII, EBCDIC, Unicode and TRON.

A comparison of two of these two basic encoding systems, with tables.

Front end to several search engines and portals that allows you to enter queries in various character sets.