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...

In coding theory, a variable-length code is a code which maps source symbols to a variable number of bits. The equivalent concept in computer science is...

the encoder and decoder agree on the variety of LZW used: the size of the alphabet, the maximum table size (and code width), whether variable-width encoding...

suitable for decoding via a lookup table. On-the-other-hand, a variable-width encoding is more complex to decode since it cannot be decoded via a single...

UTF-8 supports all 1,112,064 valid Unicode code points using a variable-width encoding of one to four one-byte (8-bit) code units. Code points with lower...

Variable-length encoding of an instruction set, as is used in a variable-length instruction set Variable-length, aka variable-width encoding Universal Lithuanian...

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 or...

character encodings, requiring at least a 16-bit fixed width encoding or multi-byte variable-length encodings. The 16-bit fixed width encodings, such as...

character in a string. For fixed width, this is simply a O(1) problem, while it is O(n) problem in a variable-width encoding. Novice programmers often vastly...

use a variable-width encoding, whereby a logical character may extend over multiple positions of the string. Variable-width strings may be encoded into...

have variable length, typically integral multiples of a byte or a halfword. Some, such as the ARM with Thumb-extension have mixed variable encoding, that...

string-search algorithm may be affected by the string encoding. In particular, if a variable-width encoding is in use, then it may be slower to find the Nth...

are encoded in A0–DF (hexadecimal) block – how they are displayed is not specified, and there is no separate encoding of full-width and half-width kana...

in ASN.1 BER encoding to encode tag numbers and object identifiers. It is also used in the WAP environment, where it is called variable length unsigned...

(TBCS) is a character encoding in which characters (including control characters) are encoded in three bytes. Variable-width encoding (also known as MBCS...

theory Singleton variable, a variable that is referenced only once Singleton, a character encoded with one unit in variable-width encoding schemes for computer...

pointer. As UTF-16 is a variable-width encoding, the mbstate_t has been reused to keep track of surrogate pairs in the wide encoding, though the caller must...

(IBM-949) is a character encoding which has been used by IBM to represent Korean language text on computers. It is a variable-width encoding which represents...

and was quickly replaced by UTF-8. Similar to UTF-8, UTF-1 is a variable-width encoding that is backwards-compatible with ASCII. Every Unicode code point...

calls. Using the (now obsolete) UCS-2 encoding scheme at first, it was upgraded to the variable-width encoding UTF-16 starting with Windows 2000, allowing...

variants defined by Hitachi, Fujitsu, IBM and others. Some are variable-width encodings, employing locking shift codes to switch between single-byte and...

although it is a specific, variable-width 8-bit stateless, encoding format of GB 2312 (which also has other, less widely used, encoding formats such as HZ-GB-2312...

UTF-7 (7-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is an obsolete variable-length character encoding for representing Unicode text using a stream of ASCII characters...

its superset Windows-31J encoding), a decline from 1.3% in July 2014. Shift JIS is the third-most declared character encoding for Japanese websites (though...

times, the Direct Stream Digital sound encoding method was introduced, which uses a generalized form of pulse-width modulation called pulse-density modulation...

(character encoding) § Encoding. Some code points are encoded with two bytes (upper row), the others with four bytes (lower row). U+FFFF is encoded as 84 31...

readability, such as 2001:0db8:0000:0000:0123:4567:89ab:cdef. Variable-width encoding However, the IEC 80000-13 symbol "o" for octets can be confused...

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...

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...

methods of encoding data, such as character strings, into bit strings. Those methods may use fixed-width or variable-width strings. In a fixed-width binary...