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| Unicode Resources and Information | |||||||||||||||||||||
| A Tutorial on Character Code Issues | Useful information on issues related to character encoding: Unicode, ASCII, the Windows character set, ISO 646, ISO 8859, etc. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Alan Wood's Unicode Resources | Unicode and multilingual support in HTML, Fonts, web browsers and other applications. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Die Unicode-Datenbank | Lists of all Unicode characters, ordered by block, category and some of the additional Unicode-properties.
A Windows-CHM/Help - version is available for download as well. Note: the site is in German, but even if you don't read German the Unicode lists are very helpful. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Joel on Software | "The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets." | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Unicode Reference | After entering a unicode character (or corresponding character code) into the online form, information is displayed on this character. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Unicode Transformation Formats | UTF-8 and other Unicode character sets explained. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Unicode-enabled Products | A non-exhaustive list of products, programming libraries, operating systems, and other tools that are reported to be Unicode-enabled. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Unicode.org | Unicode Home Page. Almost everything you need to know about unicode. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| UTF-8 Sampler | A web page encoded in UTF-8 (an encoding method for unicode) containing different languages, fonts and writing systems. Useful for testing the unicode capabilities of your browser and your operating system. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Free C++ Unicode Libraries | |||||||||||||||||||||
| FreeType | A free, high-quality, and portable font engine, which supports True Type and Open Type Fonts as well as unicode. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| IBM's ICU | The International Component for Unicode (ICU) is a mature, portable set of C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode support, software internationalization (I18N) and globalization (G11N), giving applications the same results on all platforms. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| International components for Unicode | Widely used set of C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode support; open source. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| LASi | A C++ library that provides a C++ stream output interface for creating Postscript documents containing Unicode characters. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| libiconv | Unicode character conversion library using over 150 character set encodings. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| libunicows | Unicode library for Win32, to alleviate the complications related to developing a single unicode app for all Win32 platforms. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Pango | A library for laying out and rendering of text, with an emphasis on internationalization. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| UTF - CPP | A simple, portable and lightweight generic library for handling UTF-8 encoded strings. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| xtklib | Free C++ library for Windows and Unix (Linux/BSD) with: streams, unicode strings, sockets, file access, exceptions hierarchy, etc. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Non-free C++ Unicode Libraries | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Rosette Core Library for Unicode | Rosette Core Library for Unicode (RCLU) enables software engineers to add support for the world’s languages to their applications. The product’s C++ classes and ISO C-compliant, wide-character run-time library support conversions between Unicode and a broad range of language-specific legacy encodings. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| WordType Layout Engine | An ANSI-C based modular library designed for building complex subsystems that allow products to display multilingual text. With WorldType Layout Engine integrated into an operating system or application, the technology will handle various intricacies such as line layout, contextual character shaping or substitution, ligatures, combined characters and bi-directional text flow. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Font Fusion | A a small, fast, object-oriented C++ font engine with support for Unicode, TrueType, OpenType. Non-free. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Free Delphi Unicode Libraries | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Delphi Fundamentals Unicode Library | Delphi units which provide common functions necessary to utilize Unicode strings in Delphi applications. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| DIConverters | The Delphi version of the popular libiconv character conversion library. It supplies over 150 character set encodings with two complementary functions each, adding up to a total of more than 300 character conversion functions, to decode from encoding to Unicode, to encode from Unicode to encoding. All conversion are fully native and require no DLL or system dependencies. Applications build with DIConverters therefore run on all Win32 platforms starting from (and including!) Windows 95. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| SoftGems Unicode Library | A Delphi Unicode support library to use WideStrings/Unicode strings in your application. It includes more than 100 functions and classes for handling Unicode widestrings, as well as a unicode-enabled search engine and a unicode enabled regular expression search engine. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| SoftGems UniCodeEditor | UCE, the UniCodeEditor is an edit control for Delphi and Borland C++ Builder with syntax highlighting and WideString/Unicode support. This edit control comes with syntax highlighter classes for Delphi, C/C++, HTML, SQL and DCG (the Delphi Compiler Generator). | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Free Java Unicode Libraries | |||||||||||||||||||||
| IBM's ICU | The International Component for Unicode (ICU) is a mature, portable set of C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode support, software internationalization (I18N) and globalization (G11N), giving applications the same results on all platforms. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Free Unicode Utilities | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Unicode Font Viewer for Windows | This small tool shows all true type fonts on a Windows system and allows to browse through all characters. See whether your fonts contain chinese, arabic or hebrew characters. Get a short description of the selected character (where specified by the Unicode consortium) and compose a unicode string which can be copied to the clipboard and used in other applications. This way you can use the viewer as simple IME (input method editor) replacement. The viewer does not depend on any language specific version of Windows nor does it need any additional software. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Free Internationalization Resources | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Internationalization Notes | Notes and links related to software internationalization issues. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| LangPack Translator | LangPack Translator is an editor (and not an automatic translator) of Language Files which are structured like standard INI Files. The program is very simple to use; not only can you create language ini-files with it, LangPack Translator also enables you to edit existing language ini-files. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Fonts | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1001 Free Fonts | Free fonts for download. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Absolute Fonts Archive | 6800+ free true type fonts. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Chess Fonts | Page containing True Type Chess fonts and symbols for download. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| dafont.com | Many free fonts for download. A sample of each font can be previewed online. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Dina Programming Font | Dina is a monospace bitmap font, primarily aimed at programmers. It is relatively compact to allow a lot of code on screen. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Dingbat pages | Freeware and shareware dingbat fonts. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Dingbats-UK | Includes 300 dingbats for immediate preview and download and a dingbat helper with links to 2000+ individual dingbat fonts. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Download Free Fonts | Download Free Fonts - Download thousands of free true type fonts for windows and mac. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| DynaFonts | Collection of high-quality simplified and traditional Chinese Unicode fonts. Non-free. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Font Gardens Dingbat Archive | Dingbat fonts ordered by category. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Font Squirrel | Hand picked free fonts for graphic designers. The free fonts can be used in commercial projects. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Fontco | Font search engine for freeware and shareware fonts. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Fonts Search Engine | Search and download over 10000 Postscript and True Type fonts for Windows and MAC. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Fonts.com | Lots of quality fonts, non-free. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Free Font Fiesta | A collection of free and non-free fonts for download. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| FreewareFonts.com | List of free-font sites. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Liberation fonts | Free fonts distributed by RedHat as RPM package and .tar.gz file (true type): Sans (a substitute for Arial, Albany, Helvetica, Nimbus Sans L, and Bitstream Vera Sans), Serif (a substitute for Times New Roman, Thorndale, Nimbus Roman, and Bitstream Vera Serif) and Mono (a substitute for Courier New, Cumberland, Courier, Nimbus Mono L, and Bitstream Vera Sans Mono). | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Microsoft Typography | TrueType and Open Type font specification including Apple Advanced Typography specs. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Monotype Imaging Fonts | Collections of high-quality multilingual fonts. Non-free. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Only Free Fonts | An online font browser that lets you preview your fonts before downloading. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| SimplytheBest Fonts | Fonts ordered by alphabet and category. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| TopFreeFonts.com | List of free-font sites. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Unicode Fonts | A listing of unicode fonts (True Type and Open Type). | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Unicode fonts for X11 | Classic X Window system bitmap fonts. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Unicode Resources | A listing of unicode fonts by unicode.org | ||||||||||||||||||||
| UrbanFonts.com | Thousands of categorized fonts and dingbats. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Vietnamese Fonts | Free Vietnamese Unicode Fonts | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Wanted Fonts | Free font downloads organized into categories (Asian, Dingbats, Gothic, Script, Stencil and more) that are pre-viewable before download. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Wazu Japan's Gallery of Unicode Fonts | A listing of unicode fonts organized by name and writing system. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Books on Unicode | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Unicode Explained | Recommended! Very useful book on Unicode for technical as well as non-technical readers. Author: Jukka K. Korpela. ISBN 10: 0-596-10121-X ISBN 13: 9780596101213 Pages: 678 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0 | Addison-Wesley Professional, ISBN 0321480910. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Unicode demystified | A practical programmer's guide to the encoding standard. Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-70052-2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Unicode: A Primer | IDG Books Worldwide, ISBN 0-7645-4625-2. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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