HTTP: The Definitive Guide

For More Information

The very success of the World Wide Web means that HTTP applications will continue to exchange more and more content in different languages and character sets. For more information on the important but slightly complex topic of multilingual multimedia, please refer to the following sources.

Appendixes

• IANA-registered charset tags are listed in Table H-1.

• IANA-registered language tags are shown in Table G-1.

• ISO 639 language codes are shown in Table G-2.

• ISO 3166 country codes are shown in Table G-3.

Internet Internationalization

http://www.w3.org/International/

“Making the WWW Truly World Wide”—the W3C Internationalization and Localization web site.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt

RFC 2396, “Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax,” is the defining document of URIs. This document includes sections describing character set restrictions for international URIs.

CJKV Information Processing

Ken Lunde, O’Reilly & Associates, Inc. CJKV is the bible of Asian electronic character processing. Asian character sets are varied and complex, but this book provides an excellent introduction to the standards technologies for large character sets.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2277.txt

RFC 2277, “IETF Policy on Character Sets and Languages,” documents the current policies being applied by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) toward the standardization efforts in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in order to help Internet protocols interchange data ...