Character encoding is a convention of using a numeric value to represent each character of a writing script. Not only can a character set include natural...
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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...
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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...
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character encoding via XML declaration, as follows: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> With this second approach, because the character encoding cannot...
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variants of BCD encode the characters '0' through '9' as the corresponding binary values. Technically, binary-coded decimal describes the encoding of decimal...
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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)...
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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...
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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...
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left-to-right scripts when discussing encoding issues. Libraries cooperated on encoding standards for JACKPHY characters in the early 1980s. According to Ken...
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Base64 (redirect from Base64 (encoding scheme))
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...
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UTF-8 (redirect from UTF-8 encoding)
UTF-8 is a character encoding standard used for electronic communication. Defined by the Unicode Standard, the name is derived from Unicode Transformation...
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Plain text (section Character encodings)
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...
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Unicode and HTML (section Character encoding)
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...
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Japanese language and computers (redirect from Japanese character encoding)
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...
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Mojibake (redirect from Broken character)
one encoding, when the same binary code constitutes one symbol in the other encoding. This is either because of differing constant length encoding (as...
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Newline (redirect from New line character)
control character or sequence of control characters in character encoding specifications such as ASCII, EBCDIC, Unicode, etc. This character, or a sequence...
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ASCII (redirect from ASCII (character encoding))
Interchange, is a character encoding standard for representing a particular set of 95 (English language focused) printable and 33 control characters – a total...
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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...
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Unicode (redirect from Script Encoding Initiative)
symbols. Unicode (also known as The Unicode Standard and TUS) is a character encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support...
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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...
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Mac OS Roman (redirect from Mac-Roman encoding)
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...
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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...
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Code point (category Character encoding)
commonly used in character encoding, where a code point is a numerical value that maps to a specific character. In character encoding code points usually...
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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...
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Byte order mark (section Byte-order marks by encoding)
and 32-bit encodings; the fact that the text stream's encoding is Unicode, to a high level of confidence; which Unicode character encoding is used. BOM...
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Mazovia encoding – similar code page for Polish CWI-2 encoding Hardware code page Petrlik, Lukas (1996-06-19). "The Czech and Slovak Character Encoding Mess...
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UTF-16 (redirect from Supplementary character)
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...
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Windows-1252 (section Related encodings)
Windows-1252 or CP-1252 (Windows code page 1252) is a legacy single-byte character encoding that is used by default (as the "ANSI code page") in Microsoft Windows...
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each character. Today, the Unicode-based UTF-8 encoding uses a varying number of byte-sized code units to define a code point which combine to encode a character...
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