Character Encoding

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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.

Character Set

Character Encoding Standards

ASCII

Unicode

Unicode Transformation Format UTF.

UTF-8

UTF-16

UTF-32

Western

Latin-US