Standardization

Unicode

Unicode Home Page
Unicode Testing Facility
Michael Everson's Everson Mono 10646 Unicode font set (mirrored [not always completely] at midir.ucd.ie and ftp.nada.kth.se)
SGML Public Entity Sets for ISO 10646 Characters
Chinese.text.unicode FAQ

Publications

Computer Standards and Interfaces (journal)
Stavros Macrakis's "Character Codes for Greek: Problems and Modern Solutions. (Presented at the First International Conference onthe History of the Greek Alphabet, Athens, summer 1995.)
Manuel Tomas Carrasco Benitez's "On the Multilingual normalization of the Web"

International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Home Page. ISO standards can be searched by connecting to the master list of ISO technical committees and following the links there. Specialized lists include:

JTC1/SC2 Coded Character Sets
- ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 10646 UCS
- ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG3 7- and 8-bit coded character sets . (See also the ISO 2375 (ECMA) registry of coded character sets [Microsoft Word 6 format].)
JTC1/SC18 Document Processing and Related Communication
- ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8 (Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML], etc.)
JTC1/SC22 Programming Languages, Their Environments and System Software Interfaces
- ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20 (Internationalization). Responsible for internationalization (i18n) in SC22.
TC46 Information and Documentation
- TC46/SC2 Conversion of Written Languages
- TC46/SC4 Computer Applications in Information and Documentation

Standards Information Resources

General

Markus Kuhn's ftp archive for Standards Information
Harald T. Alvestrand's table of languages and character sets
ISO 639: 1988 (E/F) (two-letter language codes)
Johan van Wingen's International Standards for Character Codes and related subjects
Johan van Wingen's Groups working on Character Sets and Coding
European Committee for Standardization CEN/TC304 Character Set Technology home page
Internet Standards Draft Proposals
Library of Congress Z39.50 Maintenance Agency

Slavic

Contrastive Table of Cyrillic Encoding Systems

Vendors

Adobe Systems FTP Server

Tools

C3 System for Coded Character Set Conversion