Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems.

This article will focus on UTF-8.

External links

• The Unicode Consortium
• UTF-8 and Unicode Standards
• wikipedia:Unicode
• Google web fonts
• The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) — by Joel Spolsky (aka Joel on Software)