MSDN: How to Encode XML Data
- Article explaining how character encoding works and specifically how it works in XML and the MSXML DOM.
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnxml/html/xmlencodings.asp

Chinese XML FAQ (in English)
- FAQ about Chinese document encodings, and how they relate to XML. Also includes links and software.
- http://xml.ascc.net/en/utf-8/faq.html

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.
- http://www.hackcraft.net/xmlUnicode/

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.
- http://www.unicodecharacter.com/unicode/standard.html

ISO 8859 Alphabet Soup
- A commented graphical overview of the ISO 8859 character sets by Roman Czyborra.
- http://www.global-translation-services.com/iso8859.html

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].
- http://asn1.elibel.tm.fr/xml/

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.
- http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmes-xml/

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.
- http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_encoding.asp

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.
- http://asf.gils.net/xer/

The Unicode Consortium
- The official Unicode web site provides extensive information and resources for programmers, implementers and others involved in computer globalization work.
- http://www.unicode.org/