* ''The Unicode Standard, Version 4.0'', The Unicode Consortium, Addison-Wesley Professional, Aug. 27, 2003. ISBN 0-321-18578-1
[[किपा:Unicodeconsortium_book4.jpg|thumb|right|The Unicode Standard, Version 4.0]]
== External links ==
* Offical
** [http://www.unicode.org The Unicode Consortium]
*** Unicode versions: [http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr27/ 3.1], [http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr28/ 3.2], [http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0 4.0], [http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.1/ 4.0.1], [http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.1.0/ 4.1] [http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.0.0/ 5.0.0]
*** [http://www.unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html new characters], [http://www.unicode.org/pending/pending.html scripts] and [http://www.unicode.org/alloc/investigation.html characters and scripts under investigation]
*** [http://www.unicode.org/charts/ Code Charts] ([[Portable Document Format|PDF]] files)
* Character information
** [http://www.decodeunicode.org/ decodeunicode] Unicode-Wiki with 50.000 gifs in three sizes. English/German.
** [http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/search.htm Unicode Character Search] (search for characters by thier unicode names)
** [http://www.eki.ee/letter/ The Letter Database] Uses forms to present groups in list or grid format by [[hexadecimal]].
* tools
** [http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/uniview/conversion Unicode Code Converter v3]
** Insert characters instantly with [http://quickkeydotnet.sourceforge.net/ Quick Key Character Grid].
** [http://billposer.org/Software/unidesc.html A suite of programs for finding out what is in a Unicode file]
** [http://billposer.org/Software/uni2ascii.html Programs for converting between Unicode and various ASCII representations]
* Misc<!--much of this should probablly be thrown away but i'm sorting first and editing later in the interests of full disclosure of additions and removals ~~~~ -->
** [http://www.nafeesonline.com/usoft Urdu Unicode Chart]
** [http://unicode.coeurlumiere.com/ Table of Unicode characters from 1 to 65535]
** [http://www.macchiato.com/unicode/charts.html UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 Code Charts] and a [http://www-atm.physics.ox.ac.uk/user/iwi/charmap.html character map] (requires [[JavaScript]])
** [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/ Example text files using Unicode]
** [http://www.lazytools.com/unicode-ascii/ Unicode special character map] resembles the Windows version. Click a symbol to obtain either the named or numeric code for HTML.
** [http://www.evertype.com/standards/csur/ ConScript Unicode Registry] a project to standardize part of the Private Use Area for use with [[artificial script]]s and artificial languages. An explanation of how to propose character names in Unicode is available here.
** [http://www.viduranet.com/nuke/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=115 What is Unicode?]
** Tim Bray's [http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/26/UTF Characters vs Bytes] explains how the different encodings work.
** [http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/ Alan Wood's Unicode Resources] Contains lists of word processors with Unicode capability; fonts and characters are grouped by type; characters are presented in lists, not grids.
** Seeing [http://www.ianalbert.com/misc/unichart.php the entirety of Unicode printed out] as a single large poster gives a good feel for the size of the code.
* Critiscism
** [http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/u-secret.html The secret life of Unicode] "A peek at Unicode's soft underbelly" Describes problems requiring resolution. Includes links to Unicode resources.
** [http://www.hastingsresearch.com/net/04-unicode-limitations.shtml A harshly critical article about Unicode], and a [http://slashdot.org/features/01/06/06/0132203.shtml response to it] (''n.b.'': This article is dated 2001, and much has changed regarding Unicode since that time)
* Software development
** [http://www.icu-project.org/ International Components for Unicode (ICU)] An open source set of libraries that provide robust and full-featured Unicode services for your applications on a wide variety of platforms.
** [http://www.flexiguided.de/publications.utf8proc.en.html utf8proc] - A free library for Unicode normalization, case-folding and stripping/mapping of certain characters.
** [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)] by [[Joel Spolsky]] of JoelonSoftware.com (this is now outdated, but still a reasonable starting point).
** [http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Intl/Supplementary/ Supplementary Characters in the Java Platform] from [[Sun Microsystems]]
** [http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=204 JSR 204] Unicode 3.1 supplementary character support [[Java Specification Request]]
* Unicode support information
** [http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2futf_2d8 Freedesktop.Org's Project UTF-8]'s purpose is to document and promote proper Unicode support in free and Open Source software.
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