How to put multilingual information on the web - some resources

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Unicode
The home page for the Unicode standard, a single character set that includes all the characters used by the world's major languages. Both Windows 95 and Windows NT support Unicode and these operating systems supply the fonts required as well. Netscape and Internet Explorer are Unicode compliant, and it is also endorsed by WC3 as the standard for digital transfer via the Internet.

Unesco Observitory on the Information Society
A Global watch service on ethical, legal and societal challenges of the Information Society

W3C internationalization page
The W3C Internationalization Activity has the goal of proposing and coordinating any techniques, conventions, guidelines and activities within the W3C and together with other organizations that allow and make it easy to use W3C technology worldwide, with different languages, scripts, and cultures.