Articles on Unicode

Selected Articles

The following articles are recommended first, to give a sense of what Unicode is and where it is used.

• Unicode nearing 50% of the web (January 2010)
• The 10 most important technologies you never think about (April 2008)
• The Unicode Standard 5.0: An Appreciation (October 2006)

Other Articles of Interest

Some of the many other useful articles about Unicode are listed below. Please contact us if you can suggest others.

2008.05		Google Posting about Unicode 5.1	The Official Google Blog
2007.05		Unicode 5.0 From 50,000 Feet	Richard Gillam
2007.01		Worldly Windows: Extend the Global Reach Of Your Applications With Unicode 5.0	Allen, Kaplan, Wissink
2006.06		Dodici Anni di Unicode	Marco Cimarosti
2005.07		XML and Unicode (regularly updated)	Oasis Technology Reports
2004.11		Introduction to Unicode	Michał Kosmulski
2004.08		Using Unicode to Power the World's Largest Democracy	Linux Journal
2003.10		The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer...	Joel on Software
2003.04		Characters vs. Bytes	Tim Bray
2003.04		On the Goodness of Unicode	Tim Bray
2002.05		Why Unicode Is Important for Localization	Ken Lunde
2001.06		Character Sets Encoding Basics	Peter Constable
2001.06		Understanding Unicode I and II	Peter Constable
1999.09		To Unicode or Not to Unicode	Ken Lunde
1999.05		XML and the Second-Generation Web	Scientific American
1993		The Design of a Unicode Font	Bigelow and Holmes

Articles of Historic Interest

The following are primarily for those interested in the history of Unicode. Some of these do not have links; please contact us if you can suggest pages to link to.

2007.12		Ethiopians get texting in Amharic	BBC News, Addis Ababa
2007.02		Upcoming PHP release will offer Unicode Support	Bruce Byfield
2007.01		John Wells' phonetic blog	John Wells
2006.12		The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0 Review	Richard Gillam
2006.11		Unicode 5.0 continues toppling of Tower of Babel	Bruce Byfield
2006.10		Unicode 5, The Book, is here	Richard Ishida
2006.10		Unicode and Ruby	Tim Bray
2006.10		Sumero-Akkadian Recognized Here	P. J. Connoly
2006.08		Unicode and PHP 6	Andrei Zmievski
2006.07		A New Script for Europe	Georgi Iliev
2006.07		Unicode turns 5.0 today	John Yunker
2006.06		Unicode Blues	Tim Bray
2006.02		User poll: access to the Unicode Standard	Asmus Freytag
2005.03		The Unicode Imperative	Oracle Technology Network
2004.06		Unicode : le standard de codage de caractères sur lequel reposent tous les espoirs à l'heure actuelle (in French)	JDN Développeurs
2003.07		Unicode - Where are we?	The LISA Newsletter
		Character Sets: UCS/Unicode Environment (regularly updated)
2002.08		Unicode: The Quiet Revolution	The Seybold Report
2001.05		Unicode 3.1: The nitty gritty	IBM developerWorks
2001		Implementing the Unicode Standard for Encoding Character Sets, Editorial	Scholarly Societies Project
2000.11		Oldest written language to get a digital update	Baltimore Sun
2000.07		Cuneiform Scholars Take High-Tech Road to Translation	The Gazette Online
2000.07		PeopleSoft implements Unicode	Press Release
2000.03		Alphabets of the world come together with Unicode	CNN.com
2000		Unicode Standard marches on	MacCentral Online
1999		Language Lessons: Software is finding more than one voice	Asiaweek.com
1999.04		Going global overnight	InfoWorld
1999		Charles Petzold Interview	Amazon.com
1998.06		Why Do We Need Unicode?	Roman Czyborra
1998		Global software for the global village
1998		An in-depth look at Java's character type	JavaWorld
1997		The Software Project and Unicode	Dr. Dobb's Portal
1997		Unicode: Making the Web Safe for Furriners	Editorial Eye
1996		Unicode: Writing in the Global Village	Computing and the Humanities
1996.03		Organizing Babylon	Adele Hars / Byte Magazine
1995		International Support in Applications and System Software	M. Davis & J. Grimes / Objects in Europe
1994		A truly Multilingual WWW	James Gosling
1992.09		Kiss Your ASCII Goodbye	John Dvorak, PC Magazine
1991		Häßlicher Amerikaner	Der Spiegel
1991.08		Unicode breaks the ASCII Barrier	Datamation

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