Script & character information
A landing page for information and apps about writing systems and characters.
For anyone who wants to better understand how scripts work in computerised environments, and more particularly with regards to Unicode. The material should be accessible for a wide audience, from developers to managers, and comes with a set of interactive pages that explore the examples and scripts in the tutorial.
Arabic • Cyrillic • Devanagari • Greek • Han • Hangul • Hebrew • Japanese • Latin • Thai • Tibetan • Word wrap tester
Translations in various scripts of phrases that can be used for examples in documents and presentations.
Lists fonts packaged with the Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, Noto fonts, and SIL fonts, grouped by script, and shows examples of each.
An Introduction to Indic Scripts
An introduction to the major Indic scripts used on the Indian mainland. Those addressed in this paper include specifically Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil, and Telugu.
From time to time questions are raised on W3C mailing lists about how to implement phonetic annotations in zhùyīn fúhào, or bopomofo. Participants in these discussions need a good understanding of the various complexities of bopomofo rendering, particularly concerning the way tone marks are handled.
Notes on Mongolian variant forms
There is some confusion about which shapes fonts should produce for Mongolian characters when combined with Free Variation Selectors (FVS), and sometimes also when not. This document looks at what glyphs are produced by fonts for characters in the Mongolian block, and tracks ongoing discussion about how to standardise them.
Simplified & Traditional Chinese
What's the Difference between Simplified & Traditional Chinese, and are they Separate in Unicode?
W3C Internationalization articles
A range of articles, mostly about international features of HTML and CSS, on the W3C site.
Other articles
Articles