Project UTF-8
Project UTF-8’s purpose is to document and promote proper Unicode support (particularly UTF-8 support) in free and Open Source software.
The latest specification for UTF-8, dated 2003-11, can be found as IETF’s STD 63 or RFC 3629.
Discussion
There is a mailing list: utf-8@lists.freedesktop.org. To join the list, send a message to utf-8-request@lists.freedesktop.org with only the word ‘subscribe’ in the body. List archives are available.
IRC discussions happen in the #unicode channel on irc.gnome.org. Here is a helpful list of irc clients that support UTF-8.
Contributing
To contribute to these pages, create a wiki account, then join the above IRC channel and ask someone to add you to FreedesktopGroup.
Current project members include
- Behdad Esfahbod
- Noah Levitt
- Roozbeh Pournader
- Danilo Segan
- Mariano Suárez-Alvarez
- Miloslav Trmac
- Alexander Winston
Project UTF-8 Pages
BadSoftware. Contrary to what Markus Kuhn is doing with his UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, we will be trying to maintain a list of software that doesn’t support UTF-8. Since UTF-8 is the character set standard, we consider every piece of software that doesn’t support UTF-8 to be very old-fashioned and out of date.
BMP-Only. A list of software that supports only the BMP of Unicode, and thus lacks full Unicode support.
Fonts. A list of free and non-free fonts supporting various ranges of Unicode.
unicode-translation. A subproject of project UTF-8 with the goal of translating Unicode character names and other data into many languages using the gettext framework.
-- AlexanderWinston - 14 Jun 2004
-- AlexanderWinston - 07 Apr 2004
-- NoahLevitt - 17 Feb 2004