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 B?rckel, 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)
• Biblioth?que et ?critures, d'ASCII ? 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 B?rckel (in German)
• Dodici Anni di Unicode by Marco Cimarosti (in Italian)

Older Publications

• Andr?, Jacques. Unicode, ?criture du monde? / Jacques Andr?, Henri Hudrisier. Paris: Lavoisier, 2002. (Document num?rique, 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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