Contents

• What's the Problem?
• How it Looks to the Computer
• An Early Encoding
• The ASCII Character Set
• The Latin-1 Character Set
• The Latin-2 Character Set
• The WinLatin-1 Character Set
• Code-Page Chaos
• What is Unicode?
• Unicode Code Point Assignments
• Code Point Notation
• Encoding Unicode - UTF-16
• Byte Order Mark - BOM
• Encoding Unicode - UTF-32
• Encoding Unicode - UTF-8
• Specifying an Encoding in HTML
• Using Unicode Characters in HTML
• Perl's World View
• Perl Defaults to Binary IO
• Specifying an Encoding Layer
• Character Semantics for Built-in Functions
• Include Unicode Literals in Source
• Manually Upgrading Strings to UTF-8
• Perl, XML and Unicode
• Encoding of HTML Form Submissions
• Retrieving Encoded Web Content
• References