Web Directory

» Chinese XML FAQ (in English)
   FAQ about Chinese document encodings, and how they relate to XML. Also includes links and software.
   http://xml.ascc.net/en/utf-8/faq.html

» Entry-Level Unicode for XML
   A "just enough education to perform" guide to Unicode and ISO 10646 for authors of XML parsers and other software that processes XML.
   http://www.hackcraft.net/xmlUnicode/

» Expressing Simple Dublin Core in RDF/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.
   http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmes-xml/

» History of Unicode Standard(s)
   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.
   http://www.unicodecharacter.com/unicode/standard.html

» ISO 8859 Alphabet Soup
   A commented graphical overview of the ISO 8859 character sets by Roman Czyborra.
   http://www.global-translation-services.com/iso8859.html

» MSDN: How to Encode XML Data
   Article explaining how character encoding works and specifically how it works in XML and the MSXML DOM.
   http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa468560.aspx

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

» W3Schools.com: XML Encoding
   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.
   http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_encoding.asp