Revisited
Trying to import my phpGedView source into a subversion project balked on some UTF-8 error. I still haven't tracked it down, but it may actually be a svn bug in v. 1.2.3 rather than my locale or the source code of pgv. Anyhow, it made me realize that my system at home was not setup with UTF-8 as the locale. Here then are the many great resources that I found along the way to setting my home system to use UTF-8 for the locale.
Must Read
http://www.unifont.org/index.html This web site provides information about Unicode fonts, Unicode-enabled software, internationalization, and Unicode usability issues on free/libre/open source (FLOSS) operating systems.
http://eyegene.ophthy.med.umich.edu/unicode/ A Quick Primer On Unicode and Software Internationalization Under Linux and UNIX by Ed Trager of the University of Michigan
http://hektor.umcs.lublin.pl/~mikosmul/computing/articles/linux-unicode.html Introduction to Unicode — Using Unicode in Linux
http://www.phpwact.org/php/i18n/utf-8 UTF-8 with PHP put together by the fine folks of WACT (Harry Fuecks)
More
- UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ for Unix/Linux
- Introduction to i18n
- Debian Developer's Reference Chapter 8 - Internationalizing, translating, being internationalized and being translated
- wikipedia on Internationalization and Localization
- wikipedia on Software Localization including primers and resources for Open Source development toolkits
- QString Class Reference
- GNU C Library
- NSText a library for Apple OS X