This Unicode tutorial book is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning Unicode himself. Topics include Character Sets and Encodings; GB2312/GB18030 Character Set and Encodings; JIS X0208 Character Set and Encodings; Unicode Character Set; Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP); Unicode Transformation Formats (UTF); Surrogates and Supplementary Characters; Unicode Character Blocks; Python Support of Unicode Characters; Java Character Set and Encoding; Java Encoding Maps, Counts and Conversion. Updated in 2024 (Version v5.32) with minor changes. For latest updates and free sample chapters, visit https://www.herongyang.com/Unicode.

This book contains Herong's notes and tutorial examples on Chinese Big5 character set. Topics include: Mapping table of all Big5 characters, native codes, corresponding Unicode codes and UTF8 codes; Java program that produces the mapping table; Programs to map Big5 to Unicode and Unicode to Big5. Updated in 2024 (Version v4.05) with minor changes. For latest updates and free sample chapters, visit https://www.herongyang.com/Big5.

This book contains Herong's notes and tutorial examples on Chinese GB2312 character set. Topics include: Mapping table of all GB2312 characters, native codes, corresponding Unicode codes and UTF8 codes; Java program that produces the mapping table; Programs to map GB2312 to Unicode and Unicode to GB2312. Updated in 2023 (Version v4.04) with minor changes. For latest updates and free sample chapters, visit https://www.herongyang.com/GB2312.

This book is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning JSP (JavaServer Pages). Topics include Tomcat installation and configuration to support JSP; JSP execution context, JSP elements, and sessions; Using JavaBean Classes; Cookie management; Controlling HTTP Response Header Lines; Supporting non-ASCII characters and localization; Debugging and measuring performance; Using EL (Expression Language); JSTL (JSP Standard Tag Library) syntax and Tag Java interface; Managing file uploads. Updated in 2022 (Version v5.11) with minor changes. For latest updates and free sample chapters, visit https://www.herongyang.com/JSP.

This book is a collection of tutorial notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning JDK (Java Development Kit) core libraries himself. Topics include Time and Calendar, Internationalization, Unnamed Packages, Collections, Character Set and Encoding, Logging, XML related technologies: DOM, SAX, DTD, XSD, and XSL, Cryptography, Certificates, Key stores, Cipher and Encryption, Socket communication, SSL and HTTPS. Updated in 2024 (Version v6.32) with JDK 20. For latest updates and free sample chapters, visit https://www.herongyang.com/JDK.

This PHP tutorial book is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning PHP himself. Topics include PHP script syntax; data types, variables, array, expressions, statements and functions; Web server integration; HTTP requests and controlling HTTP responses; sessions, cookies, and file uploads/downloads; MySQL database server access; files, directories, and ZIP archives; parsing HTML Documents; processing image files; SOAP extension; managing non-ASCII characters; classes and objects; using PHP on Windows, macOS and Linux; executing external programs on operating system. Updated in 2022 (Version v5.16) with minor changes. For latest updates and free sample chapters, visit https://www.herongyang.com/PHP.

This XML tutorial book is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning XML himself. Topics include introduction to XML, DTD (Document Type Definition), XSD (XML Schema Definition), XPath (XML Path Language), XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language), XSLT (XSL Transformation), XSL-FO (Formatting Objects), DOM (Document Object Model), and SAX (Simple API for XML); viewing XML with Chrome, Firefox, Safari and IE Web browsers; XML tools with Notepad++ and Atom editors; generating and parsing XML with Java, PHP and Python programs; converting XML to and from JSON. Updated in 2024 (Version v5.25) with minor changes. For latest updates and free sample chapters, visit https://www.herongyang.com/XML.