Chinese XML FAQ (in English) - http://xml.ascc.net/en/utf-8/faq.html
FAQ about Chinese document encodings, and how they relate to XML. Also includes links and software. |
Entry-Level Unicode for XML - http://www.hackcraft.net/xmlUnicode/
A "just enough education to perform" guide to Unicode and ISO 10646 for authors of XML parsers and other software that processes XML. |
Expressing Simple Dublin Core in RDF/XML - http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmes-xml/
Explains how to encode the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set V1.1 (DCMES) in XML, provides a DTD to validate the documents and describes a method to link them from web pages. |
History of Unicode Standard(s) - http://www.unicodecharacter.com/unicode/standard.html
What document(s) define(d) the Unicode standard? This is a complete history of the Unicode standard from 1.0 to a preview of the (future) 3.0 and 4.0 versions to come. |
ISO 8859 Alphabet Soup - http://www.global-translation-services.com/iso8859.html
A commented graphical overview of the ISO 8859 character sets by Roman Czyborra. |
MSDN: How to Encode XML Data - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa468560.aspx
Article explaining how character encoding works and specifically how it works in XML and the MSXML DOM. |
The Unicode Consortium - http://www.unicode.org
The official site with information and resources for programmers, implementers and others involved in computer globalization work. |
W3Schools.com: XML Encoding - http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_encoding.asp
XML documents can contain foreign characters like Norwegian æøå, or French êèé. To let your XML parser understand these characters, you should save your XML documents as Unicode. |