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==Unicode==
==Unicode==
Unicode supports a larger character set than [[#ASCII|ASCII]].


Unicode Transformation Format UTF.
Unicode Transformation Format UTF.

Revision as of 20:26, 25 June 2018

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Overview

Character encoding is the process though which characters within a text document are represented by numeric codes. Depending of the character encoding used, the same text will end up with different binary representations. Common character encoding standards are ASCII and Unicode.

Character Set

Character Encoding Standards

ASCII

Unicode

Unicode supports a larger character set than ASCII.

Unicode Transformation Format UTF.

UTF-8

UTF-16

UTF-32

Universal Character Set (UCS) ISO 10646

Western

Latin-US