Books about charset and encoding?

Question

I want to learn complete and authoritative knowledge about charset and encoding.

That's better that it can provide:

• the orgin,
• the history,
• the standards of charset/encoding,

and also include some specific application/support fields,

such as

1. languages(java, c/c++, javascript, flash..),
2. web(html, http..),
3. database(db encoding, collation, IBM codepage...),
4. mainframe(EBCDIC..)

Who can give a book list about that.

so long to find this book.

Answer 1

The best one which I found on the subject is- The Unicode Standard : Worldwide Character Encoding. By, Unicode foundation itself, currently in its version 5 is an exhaustive research on subject.

Link: http://www.amazon.com/Unicode-Standard-Worldwide-Character-Encoding/dp/0201567881

Though, you may want to check other previous versions as well.

Other books on Unicode:

• Unicode Demystified -by Richard Gillam
• Unicode Explained -by Jukka Korpeta
• Fonts and Encoding
• CJKV Information Processing.

Most of them can be found HERE.