Here you find some advice for programmers who are starting to learn about character sets and encodings.
Here you will find introductory material about character sets. For the moment, beginners who want to become experts in this area are referred to Ken Lunde's excellent book "CJKV Information Processing".
Here you find a comparison of the conversion tables various systems use for each encoding. Use this material before implementing any character set converter, to guarantee that your converter will be in line with what other systems do.
Last modified: 1 January 2004.