Not many posts for a while, we've been busy creating a website back-end for the Super League. In doing so we had to handle some legacy content and work out the ins and outs of unicode encodings and some practical issues in applying all this to Python. This post is to save some of the urls we found. On the origins of unicode - Tim Bray UTF Unicode Those pesky Microsoft Characters - MS Codepage 2512 Excellent Tables and References - Oscar Van Vlijmens Good reference for utf-8 More about pesky characters Unicode Search and info on a per character basis - FileFormat fffd index pages for chars and encodings A summary and other links - Intertwingly introduction