Added a useful link to Markus Kuhn's Unicode and UTF-8
FAQ.
http://www.nada.kth.se/i18n/ucs/unicode-iso10646-oview.html
For comparison:
- Introducing Unicode to ECMAScript --
+ Introducing Unicode to ECMAScript (aka JavaScript) --
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/internationalization-support.html
IANA Character Set Names:
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets
+Discussion of UTF-8 and Unicode support for POSIX and Linux:
+ http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
+
Encodings:
Overview: