My Unicode Links

I am interested in studying languages of the world. Therefore, the announcement of Unicode has raised my interested on it. Since its draft stage, I have been watching its progress, especially during the stage of unifying the Han characters sets. Although I must say that the current Han characters collection in Unicode is still far from perfect, it is still an acceptable version. I hope that there will be much improvement later, possible with the addition of places name used in Hong Kong, and the correction of some incorrect glyphs. If possible, I would like them to complete remove all fouls characters also. J

* Please note that Unicode 5.0.0 is planned to release in the 3rd quarter of 2006! *

Here are some links to some of my testing on Unicode and utf-8 pages.

Blocks of ISO-10646/Unicode 3.2-Beta.
How to convert between Unicode and UTF-8 format.
My Personal Information in UTF-8 and Unicode format.
Use of Unicode in different character sets.

Funny Characters resemble to Facial Expressions in Unicode.


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Display Unicode Character Table
Cannot print multilingual homepage with Microsoft Explorer

Here are some interesting links related to Unicode and utf-8 pages.

Unicode : the standard
Unicode display support
1. Unicode font from Bitstream
  If you think you need a good Unicode font, this is a good choice. J
2. Microsoft Typography -- In case you only need Pan European Fonts, you have a handful selection from Microsoft. All fonts are WGL4 compatible.
3. Standard Unicode fonts from Windows NT -- Lucida Sans Unicode
4. Many Unicode fonts from Microsoft and other company for downloading J
5. Besides Bitstream Cyberbit and Lucida Sans Unicode, the 3rd Unicode Font
  - Arial MS Unicode from Microsoft, available in Office 2000! A font which can display the most of languages: Han Characters, most European Languages, Arabic characters, most Hindic characters, and also Tibetian, Amenian and Georgian!
Unicode and Han Characters
1. FAQ on Unified Han Characters in Unicode at Unicode Consortium
2. How did Unicode consider if two Han Characters are different?
3. An interactive Han characters dictionary: You can search by strokes and find its pronounciation in many languages
4. Unicode and the Chinese Writing System : A Few Comment (by Chih-Hao Tsai University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); contains some critics on the problem of current Unicode implementation of Chinese characters. Very worth to read! Highly recommend!
5. You are using Linux? Or you just want a generic 24x24 Unicode Han Characters Font? Please read here!
Interesting Unicode-related sites
1. W3C Internationalization and Localization
  Current Topic: Non-western Character sets, Languages, and Writing Systems
2. Tenth International Unicode Conference - Unicode UTF-8
  (This is an interesting site that you can view many languages at the same page, including Arabic and Hebrew. If you are using Office 2000, you shall see most of the languages if you have installed the Arial MS Unicode font!)
3. MSDN Online -- Designing a Globalized and Localizable Web Site
4. Esperanto Characters - Unicode Numeric Character References
5. ISO-8859 Alphabet Soup -- the character sequence before ISO-10646
6. A character set smorgasbord -- the site maintained by Francois Yergeau, a list of Web sites that serve documents in various languages, with a variety of character sets and encodings.
7. Will Unicode kill Japanese Kanji (Han Characters)?

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19/06/2001  08:48a               6,285 Convert.html             
05/10/2001  08:53p              29,385 DisplayTable.html        
19/06/2001  08:48a               7,512 Facial.html              
19/06/2001  08:48a               5,162 IEPrint.html             
19/06/2001  08:48a               2,286 Unicode24x24ChinFont.html
19/06/2001  08:49a               9,139 UniConv.html             
19/06/2001  08:49a               2,663 UTF-8_Test.html          
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