l10n resource for Mideast http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/handson/dev/Mideast.mspx http://www.i18nguy.com/markup/right-to-left.html http://www.i18nguy.com/MiddleEastUI.html Amazing result from google translate - http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=zh-TW&sl=en&u=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=3&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dprogrammer%26hl%3Dzh-TW%26client%3Dopera%26rls%3Den%26hs%3DA5O What is the right way to do ignore case comparison... - http://forums.worsethanfailure.com/forums/thread/125833.aspx Why sometime "& nbsp" will turn to "?" - http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2008/01/a_and_nbsp_myst.html Some issues about Turkey - http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001075.html Comphensive Unicode decision - http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?design.4.596356 http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001084.html Trend of using unicode - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/moving-to-unicode-51.html http://stackoverflow.com/questions/90838/how-can-i-detect-the-encoding-codepage-of-a-text-file The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!). - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/printerFriendly/articles/Unicode.html Take a look if you don't externalized non-acsii character to resource bundle http://jroller.com/page/dschneller?entry=java_source_file_encoding Fun cold fusion issue, http://stacktoheap.com/blog/2012/12/19/why-a-feature-of-our-website-stopped-working-for-norway/ Experience sharing for software localization - http://www.mscharhag.com/2013/11/six-things-i-learned-for-software.html Check unicode characters - http://graphemica.com/ http://javarevisited.blogspot.com.au/2015/02/difference-between-utf-8-utf-16-and-utf.html http://utf8everywhere.org/