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Characters
- Character encodings for beginners
- Character encodings
- Handling character encodings in HTML and CSS (tutorial)
- Character encodings: Essential concepts
- Choosing & applying a character encoding
- Declaring character encodings in HTML
- Declaring character encodings in CSS
- The byte-order mark (BOM) in HTML
- Normalization in HTML and CSS
- Characters or markup?
- Changing (X)HTML page encoding to UTF-8
- Setting encoding in web authoring applications
- Using character escapes in markup and CSS
- Set di caratteri di un documento
- Setting the HTTP charset parameter
- Setting charset information in .htaccess
- Checking HTTP Headers
- Checking the character encoding using the validator
- Display problems caused by the UTF-8 BOM
- HTML, XHTML, XML and Control Codes
- Missing characters and glyphs
- Who uses Unicode?
- Migrating to Unicode
Language
- Declaring language in HTML New
- Language tags in HTML and XML
- Choosing a language tag
- Two-letter or three-letter language codes
- Why use the language attribute? Updated
- Setting language preferences in a browser Updated
- Working with language in HTML (tutorial) Updated
- xml:lang in XML document schemas
- Tagging text with no language
- HTTP headers, meta elements and language information Updated
- Understanding the New Language Tags (historic)
- Accept-Language used for locale setting
Text direction
- Creating HTML Pages in Arabic, Hebrew and Other Right-to-left Scripts (tutorial)
- Creare pagine SVG in arabo, ebraico e in altri script da destra a sinistra (tutorial)
- What you need to know about the bidi algorithm and inline markup
- Unicode controls vs. markup for bidi support
- Using Unicode controls for bidi text
- CSS vs. markup for bidi support
- Perdita di spazio Bidi
- Script direction and languages