Characters and encodings

• A tutorial on character code issues
• Using national and special characters in HTML and other documents on character problems in Web authoring
• Character histories - notes on some Ascii code positions
• Ascii control codes (control characters, C0 controls)
• ISO Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1) - a description with usage notes
• Material on ISO 8859 character sets, including Coverage of European languages by ISO Latin alphabets
• ISO 8859-7 vs. windows-1253 (differences between two Greek "character sets")
• ISO Latin 9 as compared with ISO Latin 1
• The euro sign in HTML and other contexts
• Test page for 8-bit encodings
• Official character encoding ("charset") names
• Guide to the Unicode standard
• Unicode line breaking rules: explanations and criticism
• Dashes and hyphens - the Unicode perspective
• Unicode spaces
• Characters in SI notations
• IA5, IRA, GSM 03.38 (in Finnish, but you'll probably understand the comparison table)
• Rolling Unicode dice in JavaScript, a demonstration