Character Sets and Code Pages

  • FAQs: FONTS
    http://www.faqs.org/faqs/fonts-faq/
    This posting answers frequently asked questions about fonts. It addresses both general font questions and questions that are specific to a particular platform.
  • Fonts.com
    http://www.fonts.com
    Download Mac and Windows fonts. Downloadable True Type and PostScript fonts from AGFA, Monotype, ITC, Adobe and others.
  • FREE fonts for graphic designers » Font Squirrel
    https://www.fontsquirrel.com/
  • Google Fonts
    https://www.google.com/fonts/
    Google Fonts makes it quick and easy for everyone to use web fonts, including professional designers and developers.
  • MS: Global Software Development Reference
    http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/cphome.asp
    Here you can find information about languages, locales, codepages, and other necessary information to enable international features of Windows XP/2000, as well as other interesting facts.
  • MS: Typography
    http://www.microsoft.com/typography
    Microsoft's Typography group researches and develops fonts and font technologies, and supports the development of TrueType and OpenType fonts by independent type vendors
  • MS: Typography: Character sets and codepages
    http://www.microsoft.com/typography/unicode/cscp.htm
    Define terminology relating to character sets. Explain how characters are mapped to glyphs. Describe the Windows 95 WGL4 character set. List standard codepages for Windows 95. Explain the codepage/Unicode range encoding within a text font.
  • MS: Typography: Microsoft ClearType
    http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/
    With ClearType font technology, the words on your computer screen look as smooth as the words on a piece of paper. This improvement in readability will accelerate the adoption of electronic books (eBooks) and the overall migration from paper to electronic forms.
  • MSDN Library: HTML and Dynamic HTML: Character Set Recognition
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/charsets/charset4.asp
    Information and a table contains information about the character sets.
  • The Unicode Consortium
    http://www.unicode.org
    The Unicode Consortium is responsible for defining the behavior and relationships between Unicode characters, and providing technical information to implementers
  • UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ for Unix/Linux
    http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
    information resource on how you can use Unicode/UTF-8 on POSIX systems (Linux, Unix). You will find here both introductory information for every user as well as detailed references for the experienced developer