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Articles on Unicode
This page has not been actively maintained since 2010. It is retained for historical interest. Some of the article links listed below may go dead over time. Other articles never had accessible links. We recommend general search tools to find current articles discussing the Unicode Standard and related topics.
Selected Articles
The following articles are recommended first, to give a sense of what Unicode is and where it is used.
- Unicode nearing 50% of the web (January 2010)
- The 10 most important technologies you never think about (April 2008)
- The Unicode Standard 5.0: An Appreciation (October 2006)
Articles of Historic Interest
The following are primarily for those interested in the history of Unicode. Some of these do not have links.
Date Title Author/Source 2008.05 Google Posting about Unicode 5.1 The Official Google Blog 2007.05 Unicode 5.0 From 50,000 Feet Richard Gillam 2007.01 Worldly Windows: Extend the Global Reach Of Your Applications With Unicode 5.0 Allen, Kaplan, Wissink 2006.06 Dodici Anni di Unicode Marco Cimarosti 2005.07 XML and Unicode Oasis Technology Reports 2004.11 Introduction to Unicode Michał Kosmulski 2004.08 Using Unicode to Power the World's Largest Democracy Linux Journal 2003.10 The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer... Joel on Software 2003.04 Characters vs. Bytes Tim Bray 2003.04 On the Goodness of Unicode Tim Bray 2002.05 Why Unicode Is Important for Localization Ken Lunde 2001.06 Character Sets Encoding Basics Peter Constable 2001.06 Understanding Unicode I and II Peter Constable 1999.09 To Unicode or Not to Unicode Ken Lunde 1999.05 XML and the Second-Generation Web Scientific American 1993 The Design of a Unicode Font Bigelow and Holmes 2007.12 Ethiopians get texting in Amharic BBC News, Addis Ababa 2007.02 Upcoming PHP release will offer Unicode Support Bruce Byfield 2007.01 John Wells' phonetic blog John Wells 2006.12 The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0 Review Richard Gillam 2006.11 Unicode 5.0 continues toppling of Tower of Babel Bruce Byfield 2006.10 Unicode 5, The Book, is here Richard Ishida 2006.10 Unicode and Ruby Tim Bray 2006.10 Sumero-Akkadian Recognized Here P. J. Connoly 2006.08 Unicode and PHP 6 Andrei Zmievski 2006.07 A New Script for Europe Georgi Iliev 2006.07 Unicode turns 5.0 today John Yunker 2006.06 Unicode Blues Tim Bray 2006.02 User poll: access to the Unicode Standard Asmus Freytag 2005.03 The Unicode Imperative Oracle Technology Network 2004.06 Unicode : le standard de codage de caractères sur lequel reposent tous les espoirs à l'heure actuelle (in French) JDN Développeurs 2003.07 Unicode - Where are we? The LISA Newsletter 2007.12 Character Sets: UCS/Unicode Environment MARC Standards 2002.08 Unicode: The Quiet Revolution The Seybold Report 2001.05 Unicode 3.1: The nitty gritty IBM developerWorks 2001 Implementing the Unicode Standard for Encoding Character Sets, Editorial Scholarly Societies Project 2000.11 Oldest written language to get a digital update Baltimore Sun 2000.07 Cuneiform Scholars Take High-Tech Road to Translation The Gazette Online 2000.07 PeopleSoft implements Unicode Press Release 2000.03 Alphabets of the world come together with Unicode CNN.com 2000 Unicode Standard marches on MacCentral Online 1999 Language Lessons: Software is finding more than one voice Asiaweek.com 1999.04 Going global overnight InfoWorld 1999 Charles Petzold Interview Amazon.com 1998.06 Why Do We Need Unicode? Roman Czyborra 1998 Global software for the global village 1998 An in-depth look at Java's character type JavaWorld 1997 The Software Project and Unicode Dr. Dobb's Portal 1997 Unicode: Making the Web Safe for Furriners Editorial Eye 1996 Unicode: Writing in the Global Village Computing and the Humanities 1996.03 Organizing Babylon Adele Hars / Byte Magazine 1995 International Support in Applications and System Software M. Davis & J. Grimes / Objects in Europe 1994 A truly Multilingual WWW James Gosling 1992.09 Kiss Your ASCII Goodbye John Dvorak, PC Magazine 1991 Häßlicher Amerikaner Der Spiegel 1991.08 Unicode breaks the ASCII Barrier Datamation