Recommended Reading List

The Unicode Consortium recommends the following books about the Unicode Standard and its use in applications, in computer languages, and in internationalization of software. These publications are mostly books, but may include articles and tutorials, as well.

Publications in English

Document Preparation for Classical Languages, 2nd ed. 2010, by David Perry

CJKV Information Processing, Second Edition by Ken Lunde

Unicode in SAP Systems by Nils Bürckel, Alexander Davidenkoff, and Detlef Werner

Fonts & Encodings by Yannis Haralambous and P Scott Horne

Unicode Explained by Jukka K. Korpela

.NET Internationalization: The Developer's Guide to Building Global Windows and Web Applications (Microsoft .NET Development Series) by Guy Smith-Ferrier

Unicode Demystified: A Practical Programmer’s Guide to the Encoding Standard by Richard Gillam

Java Internationalization (Java Series) by David Czarnecki and Andy Deitsch

XML Internationalization and Localization by Yves Savourel

Programming Perl by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Jon Orwant

The Unicode Guide: Laminated Reference Chart by Joe Becker, Richard Gillam, and Mark Davis

Publications in Other Languages

Decodeunicode: Die Schriftzeichen der Welt, 1st edition 2011 (in German)

Chinese Simplified Language Edition of The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0 (in Chinese, partial translation of text)

Bibliothèque et écritures, d'ASCII à Unicode by Yves Desrichard (in French)

Unicode 5.0 en Pratique by Patrick Andries (in French)

Passeport pour Unicode by Bernard Desgraupes (in French)

Fontes & Codages by Yannis Haralambous (in French)

Unicode in SAP-Systemen by Nils Bürckel (in German)

Dodici Anni di Unicode by Marco Cimarosti (in Italian)

Older Publications

André, Jacques. Unicode, écriture du monde? / Jacques André, Henri Hudrisier. Paris: Lavoisier, 2002. (Document numérique, v. 6, no. 3–4.) ISBN 2-7426-0594-7

Berry, John D. Language Culture Type, International type design in the age of Unicode. Graphis Press, 2002. ISBN 978-1932026016

Graham, Tony. Unicode: A Primer. Foster City, CA: MIS Press, M&T Books, 2000. ISBN 0-7645-4625-2

Sanseido. Unicode Kanji Information Dictionary. Tokyo: Sanseido, 2000. ISBN 4-385-13690-4

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