http://www.w3.org/International/resource-index
http://www.phpwact.org/php/i18n/charsets
http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc/
http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets
http://www.phpwact.org/php/i18n/charsets
http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc/
http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets
UNICODE aka ISO/IEC 10646
Unicode, UTF8, UTF-8 & UCS2See http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-forms-utf-8 for a perl regular expression that verifys UTF-8