that make up a character encoding are known as code points and collectively comprise a code space or a code page. Early character encodings that originated...

published in 1980. Two encoding schemes existed for GB 2312: a one-or-two byte 8-bit EUC-CN encoding commonly used, and a 7-bit encoding called HZ for usenet...

character encoding via XML declaration, as follows: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> With this second approach, because the character encoding cannot...

URL encoding, officially known as percent-encoding, is a method to encode arbitrary data in a uniform resource identifier (URI) using only the US-ASCII...

2312-80 in its usual encoding, GBK/1 being the non-hanzi region and GBK/2 the hanzi region. GB 2312, or more properly the EUC-CN encoding thereof, takes a...

transmission. Character encodings are representations of textual data. A given character encoding may be associated with a specific character set (the collection...

variants of BCD encode the characters '0' through '9' as the corresponding binary values. Technically, binary-coded decimal describes the encoding of decimal...

26 characters from А (0xE1) in KOI8-R are А, Б, Ц, Д, Е, Ф, Г, Х, И, Й, К, Л, М, Н, О, П, Я, Р, С, Т, У, Ж, В, Ь, Ы, З. The original KOI encoding (1967)...

The HZ character encoding is an encoding of GB 2312 that was formerly commonly used in email and USENET postings. It was designed in 1989 by Fung Fung...

A double-byte character set (DBCS) is a character encoding in which either all characters (including control characters) are encoded in two bytes, or merely...

left-to-right scripts when discussing encoding issues. Libraries cooperated on encoding standards for JACKPHY characters in the early 1980s. According to Ken...

correctly interpreted via the character encoding in effect. For example, a file or string consisting of "hello" (in any encoding), following by 4 bytes that...

Two examples of usual encodings are ASCII and the UTF-8 encoding for Unicode. While most character encodings map characters to numbers and/or bit sequences...

supports the required character. Unicode was intended to solve all encoding problems over all languages. The UTF-8 encoding used to encode Unicode in web pages...

encoding is encoding of data in plain text. More precisely, it is an encoding of binary data in a sequence of printable characters. These encodings are...

binary-to-text encoding schemes that transforms binary data into a sequence of printable characters, limited to a set of 64 unique characters. More specifically...

one encoding, when the same binary code constitutes one symbol in the other encoding. This is either because of differing constant length encoding (as...

A variable-width encoding is a type of character encoding scheme in which codes of differing lengths are used to encode a character set (a repertoire of...

control character or sequence of control characters in character encoding specifications such as ASCII, EBCDIC, Unicode, etc. This character, or a sequence...

UTF-8 is a character encoding standard used for electronic communication. Defined by the Unicode Standard, the name is derived from Unicode Transformation...

the document's characters are encoded as a sequence of bit octets (bytes) according to a particular character encoding. This encoding may either be a...

or Six-Bit Transmission Code, was, for a few years, one of the three character sets used by IBM for Binary Synchronous Communications. Transmission using...

Mac OS Roman is a character encoding created by Apple Computer, Inc. for use by Macintosh computers. It is suitable for representing text in English and...

boxes, or other symbols. Unicode or The Unicode Standard or TUS is a character encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support...

multi-byte character encoding used in the TRON project. It is similar to Unicode but does not use Unicode's Han unification process: each character from each...

[clarification needed] Another encoding, UTF-32 (previously named UCS-4), uses four bytes (total 32 bits) to encode a single character of the codespace. UTF-32...

extension rle; it is a run-length encoded bitmap, and was used as the format for the Windows 3.x startup screen. Run-length encoding (RLE) schemes were employed...

Interchange, is a character encoding standard for representing a particular set of 95 (English language focused) printable and 33 control characters – a total...

In computing, JIS encoding refers to several Japanese Industrial Standards for encoding the Japanese language. Strictly speaking, the term means either:...

Format) is a character encoding that supports all 1,112,064 valid code points of Unicode. The encoding is variable-length as code points are encoded with one...