Topics: Globalization : Character Encoding
Information, resources and products related to international character encoding, national character sets and character conversion issues.
Arabic
Arabic script encodings, including Arabic, Persian/Farsi and Kurdish.
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Chinese
Simplified and Traditional Chinese character encoding systems.
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CJKV
CJKV stands for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese and is an acronym used to describe these far-east languages and writing systems that contain more than 256 individual characters and can therefore only be represented by more than one byte per character.
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Cyrillic
Used by many languages, including Russian, Ukranian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Belorussian, Kurdish, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongolian and Uzbek.
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Greek
Modern Greek and Coptic character sets. Although Greek is a well-known modern language, Coptic is a ceremonial language still in use in the Middle East.
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Hangul
Hangul is the Korean alphabet, related in some ways to Chinese, but otherwise unique to Korea and similar in structure to many Indo-European alphabet systems.
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Hebrew
Hebrew, Yiddish and Ladino alphabets.
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Indic
Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hindi, Kannada, Khmer, Lao, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Sanskrit, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Tibetan and Thai characters sets use variations of Brahmi-derived Indic characters.
Unicode,
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Japanese
Japanese uses various character encoding systems, from the traditional Kanji to the Latin-derived Romaji.
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Latin
Used by Afrikaans, Albanian, Aymara, Azeri, Bailnese, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Cornish, Danish, Dutch/Nederlands, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Malaysian, Manx, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Welsh and many other languages.
ASCII,
Vietnamese,
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Native American
There are many languages native to North and South America, such as Cree, Navajo, Mayan, Aztec, Incan and Inuit (Inuktitut).
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Unicode
Unicode is the standard character encoding system that allows the correct display and entry of virtually all characters of every language in the world.
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