Characters
Character design standards
Microsoft’s instructions for character design.
Diacritics
An
overview of diacritics in various languages.
The
Euro symbol
Information about
the shape and use the Euro symbol.
Greek
letters
Links to information about the letters of the Greek alphabet.
Problems
of diacritic design
In his paper Problems of diacritic design for Latin script text faces, J Victor Gaultney is
dealing with the problems with shapes of diacritics
in various languages.
Runes
Links to websites with information about runes from a linguistic, archaeological
or technical point of view.
Polish
diacritics
Adam Twardoch describes the correct shaping of the Polish letters Ą Ć Ę
Ł Ń Ó Ś Ź Ż.
Problems
of diacritic design
In his paper Problems of diacritic design for Latin script text faces, J Victor Gaultney is
dealing with the problems with shapes of diacritics
in various languages.
Thorn
and eth: how to get them right
Instructions for the correct shaping of the Icelandic letters eth (Ð ð) and thorn
(Þ þ) by Gunnlaugur SE Briem.
Encoding
Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources
Information about Unicode support in various applications.
EKI Letter database
A
database of foreign language characters at the
Eesti
Keele Instituut in Estonia.
HTML
entities
A complete list of
defined entities in i HTML 4.0.
Everson Gunn Teoranta
Michael Everson is a leading person in international character code standardization.
On his website, there are proposals and comments
to encoding standards.
HTML encoding of
foreign language characters
A list of HTML codes for letters and special characters in foreign languages.
Medieval Unicode Font Initiative
A standardization project of medieval character encoding.
Roman Czyborra
Character
code history, especially Unix.
Tom Jennings
The development of the ASCII standard. There are also a few pages about computer
history on this website.
Unicode
The
official site of the Unicode Consortium, the
organization responsible for the development
of the international encoding standard containing
all writing systems.
Yucca
Korpela
Jukka ”Yucca” Korpela in Tampere, Finland, gives information about characters
and encodning.
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