Unicode Reading Recommendations

Note: This page contains old documentation from 2008, but may still be of use.

Here are some recommended articles for learning about Unicode. Feel free to add others, or comment on any of these (eg using the discussion tab).

Articles

• Introductory
  • Joel on Software: The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
• Less technical
  • NRSI: Guidelines for Writing System Support
    • 1: Components of a Writing System Implementation
    • 5: Characters, Codepoints, Glyphs
    • 6: Encoding and Unicode
• More technical
  • NRSI: Implementing Writing Systems
    • 2: Understanding characters, keystrokes, codepoints and glyphs
    • 3: Character set encoding basics
    • 4: Understanding Unicode
  • Markus Kuhn: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ for Unix/Linux

Sources

• Joel on Software is a remarkable column written by Joel Spolsky, a software developer in New York City, about software development, management, business, and the Internet. http://www.joelonsoftware.com
• NRSI is SIL's Non-Roman Script Initiative. http://scripts.sil.org/Welcome
• Markus Kuhn is a University Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/