Encoding
All I have to say is- UTF is such a trip. When I was making the GD&T Font for Tech Soft I got to play with the Unicode Standard Book
- stackoverflow.com: what-do-i-need-to-know-about-unicode
- unicode.org UTF FAQ
- UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ for Unix/Linux by Markus Kuhn
- w3.org charsets
- Official names for character sets on The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
- The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)