Comments on: Understanding Unicode

By: Sathyaish Chakravarthy

Sathyaish Chakravarthy — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

To this list of useful links on the Unicode character set, I’d like to add a chapter from Steven Roman’s book Win32 API Programming with Visual Basic. It is the best ever resource I have discovered on the subject. The chapter is titled “Strings” and sits in the MSDN April 2001 library as well.

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/win32api/chapter/ch06.html

By: Octal

Octal — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

As a web developer in South Wales I am often tasked with producing bi-lingual websites. Internationalisation is extremely important, thanks Simon for highlighting it.

By: bwarrene

bwarrene — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

This is a terribly important topic for global developers – and one not covered enough! Thanks a bunch for the great links and bringing this to our attention.

By: avine

avine — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

A couple more sites that are useful for Unicode and i18n:

The Unicode Consortium
http://www.unicode.org

Sun Globalization Resources
http://developer.sun.com/techtopics/global

I18n Guy’s I18n and L10n portal
http://i18nguy.com

By: Mattias

Mattias — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Great that this topic is covered. One thing that I find missing is reference data, ie files with complete alphabets and so on. In Unicode, of course.
Unicode string generating software is not abundant either, commercial or not.
However, this might just be me being blind...

By: pfitz

pfitz — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for the useful resources. I have to create an english/chinese site shortly and they will come in handy. At this stage I am still trying to work out which chinese set to use :S And a unicode generator of some sort for chinese symbols would be nice.. I'll keep looking.