I posted my character encoding bookmarks here, for anybody that may be interested:
http://www.chilkatsoft.com/programming/character+encoding
Reading and understanding the tutorial by Jukka “Yucca” Korpela at www.cs.tut.fi should be a requirement for any developer. I cannot tell you how many companies have databases full of corrupt text data because the programmers, managers, and system architects did not understand the concepts presented by Mr. Korpela. One afternoon spent studying this information will probably save your company 1000 man hours of work down the road…
