Character Sets and Encodings

Unicode Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

∟Character Sets and Encodings

This chapter provides notes and tutorial examples on character sets and encodings. Topics including introduction of character set and encoding; commonly used character sets and encodings.

What Is Character Set

Commonly Used Character Sets and Encodings

Conclusions:

A character set is a collection of characters.
A character encoding a schema that maps each character in a character set to a unique sequence of bytes.
Unicode is a character set.
UTF-8 is a character encoding for the Unicode character set.

Table of Contents

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►Character Sets and Encodings

ASCII Character Set and Encoding

GB2312 Character Set and Encoding

GB18030 Character Set and Encoding

JIS X0208 Character Set and Encodings

Unicode Character Set

UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format - 8-Bit)

UTF-16, UTF-16BE and UTF-16LE Encodings

UTF-32, UTF-32BE and UTF-32LE Encodings

Python Language and Unicode Characters

Java Language and Unicode Characters

Character Encoding in Java

Character Set Encoding Maps

Encoding Conversion Programs for Encoded Text Files

Using Notepad as a Unicode Text Editor

Using Microsoft Word as a Unicode Text Editor

Using Microsoft Excel as a Unicode Text Editor

Archived Tutorials

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