See also:
  • http://xml.ascc.net/en/utf-8/faq.html
    Chinese XML FAQ (in English) - FAQ about Chinese document encodings, and how they relate to XML. Also includes links and software.
  • http://www.hackcraft.net/xmlUnicode/
    Entry-Level Unicode for XML - A "just enough education to perform" guide to Unicode and ISO 10646 for authors of XML parsers and other software that processes XML.
  • http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmes-xml/
    Expressing Simple Dublin Core in RDF/XML - Explains how to encode the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set V1.1 (DCMES) in XML, provides a DTD to validate the documents and describes a method to link them from web pages.
  • http://www.unicodecharacter.com/unicode/standard.html
    History of Unicode Standard(s) - What document(s) define(d) the Unicode standard? This is a complete history of the Unicode standard from 1.0 to a preview of the (future) 3.0 and 4.0 versions to come.
  • http://www.global-translation-services.com/iso8859.html
    ISO 8859 Alphabet Soup - A commented graphical overview of the ISO 8859 character sets by Roman Czyborra.
  • http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa468560.aspx
    MSDN: How to Encode XML Data - Article explaining how character encoding works and specifically how it works in XML and the MSXML DOM.
  • http://www.unicode.org/
    The Unicode Consortium - The official site with information and resources for programmers, implementers and others involved in computer globalization work.
  • http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_encoding.asp
    W3Schools.com: XML Encoding - XML documents can contain foreign characters like Norwegian æøå, or French êèé. To let your XML parser understand these characters, you should save your XML documents as Unicode.