The Unicode^® Consortium

The Unicode^® Consortium is the organisation responsible for developing, extending and promoting the use of the Unicode^® standard.

Their web site provides the definitive source of information on the Unicode^® standard, as well as links to many other useful resources on the subject.

Microsoft Global Development and Computing Portal

Microsoft's own collection of Windows-based globalisation resources.

Full of detailed background information and development resources on internationalisation and globalisation issues covering MBCS and code pages, Unicode, Input Method Managers/Editors, locales and internationalisation support in the Windows platform.

Internationalization with Visual Basic^TM

Subtitled "The Authoritative Solution", Michael Kaplan's book does an excellent job of presenting the issues surrounding Unicode development with Visual Basic^TM as part of the overall process of internationalising and/or globalising your software.

An invaluable resource for any VB developer brave enough to tackle the internationalisation issue.

i18nGurus.com

i18nGurus.com is "the open internationalization resources directory", a large collection of links to other resources on the web related to internationalization issues.

Although i18nGurus.com is not solely aimed at VB developers, it does provide links to a wide variety of valuable information on the subject.