List of Character Encodings

Question

Is There A Book or Site That Teaches And Also Includes A Complete List of Character Encoding's That Includes Hexadecimal, Decimal and Name Versions?

If you can name a couple of books and sites, that would be very helpful thank you.

Answer 1

It's not clear what character set you want. For the ASCII characters, man ascii will do it on most Unix systems. For all of Unicode, there's an enormous standard. For HTML entities, there's the W3C. Perhaps you could be more specific about what characters you are interested in?

Answer 2

http://unicode.org/charts/ ?

Answer 3

There are so many character encodings that there is no one exhaustive source.

You should look at:

• Unicode
• Wikipedia

Between them, they are likely to be close to exhaustive.

Answer 4

Write Great Code

This book has a section on encodings and character sets.

Answer 5

1. Latin alphabet 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-1
2. UTF-8: http://www.utf8-chartable.de/
3. Unicode code charts: http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/

There are many more online resources available and Wikipedia has links to most useful ones.

Answer 6

http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets