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

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

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.

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.

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].

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

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

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

Article explaining how character encoding works and specifically how it works in XML and the MSXML DOM.