All kinds of information about Unicode and computer programs

The Unicode Consortium has just announced a new FAQ page on "Display of Unsupported Characters"

Defines Model A and Model B for Multiscript records.

This report of the ALCTS Task-Force on Non-English Access makes recommendations for the next steps to improve access to materials in languages other than English and scripts other than Latin. The report includes recommendations for specific actions concerning technical specifications, cataloging guidelines, continuing education, communication, and staffing.

Blog entry describes converting MARC8 records to UTF-8 encoding (MARC to MARCXML). Snips of code included

Online form for commenting on the non-English access report

Web page for subscribing to the nonenglishaccess discussion list

Press release announcing the availability of the Non-English Access report

Good explanation of ASCII, Latin-1, UTF-8 and Unicode

The use utf8 pragma tells the Perl parser to allow UTF-8 in the program text in the current lexical scope (allow UTF-EBCDIC on EBCDIC based platforms). The no utf8 pragma tells Perl to switch back to treating the source text as literal bytes in the current lexical scope.