Character Encoding, XML, and MSXML - Excerpt from the Microsoft XML 3.0 - XML Developer's Guide page on character encoding.
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Chinese XML FAQ (in English) - FAQ about Chinese document encodings, and how they relate to XML. Also includes links and software.

Entry-Level Unicode for XML - A just enough education to perform guide to Unicode and ISO 10646 for authors of XML parsers and other software that processes XML.
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Expressing Simple Dublin Core in RDF/XML - Explains how to encode the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set V1.1 (DCMES) in XML, provides a DTD to validate the documents and describes a method to link them from web pages.

History of Unicode Standard(s) - What document(s) define(d) the Unicode standard? This is a complete history of the Unicode standard from 1.0 to a preview of the (future) 3.0 and 4.0 versions to come.
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ISO 8859 Alphabet Soup - A commented graphical overview of the ISO 8859 character sets by Roman Czyborra.

The Unicode Consortium - The official Unicode web site provides extensive information and resources for programmers, implementers and others involved in computer globalization work.
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W3Schools.com: XML Encoding - XML documents can contain foreign characters like Norwegian æøå, or French êèé. To let your XML parser understand these characters, you should save your XML documents as Unicode.
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What ASN.1 can offer to XML - XML Encoding Rules for Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) and the ASN.1 Markup Language [ITU-T Rec. X.693 | ISO/IEC 8825-4].
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XER - XML Encoding Rules - Idea to standardize rules that would allow for information described in ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation) to be carried in XML.

404 XML Spy Online Manual: Unicode Support - Description of the Unicode and character-set encoding support in this XML editor. Includes detailed explanation of Unicode, character-set, and font issues with the various Windows OS versions. XML Spy can read, write, and convert XML files between all major character-set encodings and Unicode formats.