Excerpt from the Microsoft XML 3.0 - XML Developer's Guide page on character encoding.

FAQ about Chinese document encodings, and how they relate to XML. Also includes links and software.

A "just enough education to perform" guide to Unicode and ISO 10646 for authors of XML parsers and other software that processes 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.

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.

A commented graphical overview of the ISO 8859 character sets by Roman Czyborra.

The official Unicode web site provides extensive information and resources for programmers, implementers and others involved in computer globalization work.

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.

XML Encoding Rules for Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) and the ASN.1 Markup Language [ITU-T Rec. X.693 ; ISO/IEC 8825-4].

Idea to standardize rules that would allow for information described in ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation) to be carried in XML.

Description of the Unicode and character-set encoding support in this XML editor. Includes detailed explanation of Unicode, character-set, and font issues with the various Windows OS versions. XML Spy can read, write, and convert XML files between all major character-set encodings and Unicode formats.