References
References and Further Reading
Books
Articles and Papers
Online Resources
Scripts and Locales
General Introductions and Tutorials
Early History of Character Set Standardization
Code Charts
References and Further Reading
Books
Allen, Julie D., ed. 2007. The Unicode Standard 5.0, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley.
Betrò, Maria Carmelo. 1996. Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt. New York: Abbeville Press.
Bürckel, Nils, Alexander Davidenkoff, and Detlef Werner. 2007. Unicode in SAP Systems. Bonn: Galileo Press.
CDRA: IBM. 1995. Character Data Representation Architecture - Reference and Registry, IBM SC09-2190-00. Available at http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/cdra/.
Clews, John. 1988. Language automation worldwide: The development of character set standards. Harrogate: Sesame Computer Projects.
Coe, Michael D. 1992. Breaking the Maya Code. London: Thames & Hudson.
Coe, Michael D. 2001. The Maya (Ancient Peoples and Places). London: Thames & Hudson.
Comrie, Bernard, ed. 1990. The World’s Major Languages. London: Routledge.
Cook, B.F., John F. Healey, John Chadwick, W. Davies, B. Walker, L. Bonfane, and J.T. Hooker. 1998. Reading the Past: Ancient Writing from Cuneiform to the Alphabet. New York: Barnes & Noble.
Coulmas, Florian. 1991. The Writing Systems of the World. Oxford: Blackwell.
Coulmas, Florian. 1996. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems. Oxford: Blackwell.
Crossland, R. 1957. “Graphic Linguistics and its Terminology.” Proceedings of the University of Durham Philosophical Society, Series B 1: 13-16.
Crystal, David. 2010. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Daniels, Peter T., ed, and William Bright, ed. 1996. The World’s Writing Systems. New York: Oxford University Press.
Dānwiwat, Nanthanā. 1987. The Thai Writing System. Hamburg: Buske.
Fazzioli, Edoardo. 1987. Chinese Calligraphy: From Pictograph to Ideogram: The History of 214 Essential Chinese/Japanese Characters. New York: Abbeville Press.
Gillam, Richard. 2003. Unicode Demystified: A Practical Programmer’s Guide to the Encoding Standard. Boston: Addison-Wesley.
Haralambous, Yannis. 2007. Fonts & Encodings: From Unicode to Advanced Typography and Everything in Between. Beijing: O’Reilly.
Hardy, G. H. 1992. A Mathematician’s Apology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hart, Edwin, ed. 1989. ASCII and EBCDIC Character Set and Code Issues in Systems Application Architecture. The Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory. Chicago: Share Inc.
Hosier, Jeff, ed. 1993. The Handbook of IBM Terminology. Newbury, Berkshire: Xephon Technology Transfer.
Informix Software, Inc. 1997. Informix Guide to GLS Functionality, Version 9.1 (Part No. 000-4818, March 1997).
International Business Machines Corporation. 2008. High Level Assembler for z/OS & z/VM & z/VSE Language Reference Release 6, Sixth Edition (July 2008), SC26-4940-05. Available at http://publibfp.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/download/asmr1020.pdf.
International Business Machines Corporation. 2006. National Language Support Guide and Reference, SC10-4380-00.
Dr. International. 2003. Developing International Software, Second Edition. Redmond, Wash.: Microsoft Press.
Jean, Georges. 1992. Writing: The Story of Alphabets and Scripts. London: Thames & Hudson.
Korpela, Jukka K. 2006. Unicode Explained: Internationalize Documents, Programs, and Web Sites. Beijing: O’Reilly.
Lunde, Ken. 2009. CJKV Information Processing, 2nd ed. Beijing: O’Reilly.
Mackenzie, Charles E. 1980. Coded Character Sets: History and Development. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley.
Maini, Anil K. 2007. Digital Electronics: Principles, Devices and Applications. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Microsoft Corporation. 1993. The GUI Guide: International Terminology for the Windows Interface. Redmond, Wash.: Microsoft Press.
Morgan, Derek P. 2006. The Essential Guide to SAS Dates and Times. Cary, NC: SAS Institute Inc.
Nakanishi, Akira. 1994. Writing Systems of the World: Alphabets, Syllabaries, Pictograms. Rutland: Tuttle.
NCR Corporation. 2005. Teradata Database. International Character Set Support. Release V2R6.1. (B035-1025-115A, November 2005).
Netezza Corporation. 2009. Netezza Database User’s Guide. Software Release: 5.0.x. (20284-12 Rev. 1).
O’Donnell, Sandra M. 1994. Programming for the World: A Guide to Internationalization. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Oracle Corporation. 2002. Oracle9i Database Globalization Support Guide, Release 2 (9.2), Part No. A96529-01.
Potter, Simeon. 1975. Our Language. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Robinson, Andrew. 2001. The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs & Pictograms. London: Thames & Hudson.
Ruhlen, Merritt. 1994. The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue. New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
SAS Institute Inc. 2008. SAS/ACCESS 9.2 for Relational Databases: Reference. Cary, NC: SAS Institute Inc.
SAS Institute Inc. 2010. SAS Anti-Money Laundering 4.2 Solution Planning Guide, First Edition. Cary, NC: SAS Institute Inc.
SAS Institute Inc. 2009. Base SAS 9.2 Procedures Guide. Cary, NC: SAS Institute Inc.
SAS Institute Inc. 2009. SAS 9.2 Companion for UNIX Environments. Cary, NC: SAS Institute Inc.
SAS Institute Inc. 2009. SAS/GRAPH 9.2 Reference. Cary, NC: SAS Institute Inc.
SAS Institute Inc. 2010. SAS 9.2 Language Reference: Concepts, Second Edition. Cary, NC: SAS Institute Inc.
SAS Institute Inc. 2009. SAS 9.2 National Language Support (NLS): Reference Guide. Cary, NC: SAS Institute Inc.
Simpson, James, ed. 2011. The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics. Abingdon: Routledge.
Tresman, Ian. 1991. The Multilingual PC Directory: A Guide to Multilingual and Foreign Language Products for IBM PCs and Compatibles. Borehamwood, Herts.: Knowledge Computing.
van Wingen, Johan W. 1995. Standards for the electronic exchange of personal data. Part 5: character sets. Leiden: Ministry of the Interior.
Wolf, Maryanne, and Beth O’Brien. 2006. “From the Sumerians to Images of the Reading Brain: Insights for Reading Theory and Intervention.” G. D. Rosen, ed., The Dyslexic Brain: New Pathways in Neuroscience Discovery. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Articles and Papers
Jalbert, Philippe, Normand Létourneau, Dominic Roy, and Jean Hardy. 1997. “Translation Tables: Myth & Reality.” SUGI 22: Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual SAS Users Group International Conference, San Diego, California, March 16-19, 1997, 154-158.
Kayano, Shin, and Lee Richardson. 1993. “SAS System Support for Asian Languages.” Observations: The Technical Journal for SAS Software Users, 2(2), 4-11.
Kiefer, Manfred. 1993. “Support for International Character Sets and Formats.” Observations: The Technical Journal for SAS Software Users, 2(2), 12-17.
Kiefer, Manfred. 2009. “New Language Features in SAS 9.2 for the Global Enterprise.” Proceedings of the SAS Global Forum 2009 Conference. Cary, NC: SAS Institute Inc. Available at http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings09/315-2009.pdf.
Kiefer, Manfred, and John R. Kohl. 1995. “SAS System Support for International Character Set.” Observations: The Technical Journal for SAS Software Users, 4(3), 21-36.
Li, Sunny, and Holmes Niu. 2010. “Best Practices for a Non-English BI Deployment.” Proceedings of the SAS Global Forum 2010 Conference. Cary, NC: SAS Institute Inc. Available at http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings10/336-2010.pdf.
Long, Michael. 1992. “The SAS Windowing Environment on IBM Mainframes” Observations: The Technical Journal for SAS Software Users, 1(4), 49-55.
SAS Institute Inc. 2009. SAS Institute technical paper. “Processing Multilingual Data with the SAS 9.2 Unicode Server.” Available at http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/92unicodesrvr.pdf.
Sims, John. 1992. “Using the SAS System in the X Windows Environment.” Observations: The Technical Journal for SAS Software Users, 1(2), 6-12.
Sköllermo, Anders, and Helen Wolfson. 1996. “Using National Characters with the SAS System.” Observations: The Technical Journal for SAS Software Users, 5(2), 21-25.
Walker, Douglas. 1988. “Version 6 SAS/GRAPH Software Support for national characters.” SUGI 13: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual SAS Users Group International Conference, Orlando, Florida, March 27-30, 1988, 397-400.
Whitehead, Randal K. 1993. “DBCS and NLS Support in the SAS System.” SUGI 18: Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual SAS Users Group International Conference, New York, New York, May 9-12, 1993, 572-579.
Online Resources
Scripts and Locales
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Ancient Scripts |
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Writing systems and languages of the world |
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ISO country codes |
ISO 3166, code lists: http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists.htm |
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ISO language codes |
ISO 639.2, Codes for the Representation of the Names of Languages: http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php |
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ISO script codes |
ISO 15924, Codes for the Representation of the Names of Scripts: See http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/iso15924-codes.html |
General Introductions and Tutorials
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The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets |
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A tutorial on character code issues |
Early History of Character Set Standardization
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An annotated history of some character codes or ASCII |
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The Evolution of Character Codes, 1874-1968 |
Code Charts
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Character Sets and Code Pages at the Push of a Button |
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Unicode 6.1 Character Code Charts |
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Windows ANSI Code Pages |
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Windows OEM Code Pages |
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ISO Code Pages |
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IBM Code Pages |
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/i/software/globalization/codepages.html |