Character encoding Character encoding ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), generally pronounced , is a character encoding based on the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that work with text. Most modern character encodings have a historical basis in ASCII. ...more on Wikipedia about "ASCII"
Many of the major writing systems of the world, such as Arabic and Hebrew, are written in a form known as right-to-left (RTL), in which writing begins at the right-hand side of a page and concludes at the left-hand side. This is different from the left-to-right (LTR) direction in which languages using the Latin alphabet (such as English) are written. When LTR text is mixed with RTL in the same paragraph, each type of text should be written in its own direction, which is known as bi-directional text. This can get rather complex when multiple levels of quotation are used. Almost all writing systems originating in the Middle East are of this nature. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bi-directional text"
In computer and machine-based telecommunications terminology, a character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme, or symbol, in the written form of a natural language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Character (computing)"
A character encoding consists of a code that pairs a set of characters (representations of graphemes or grapheme-like units, such as might appear in an alphabet or syllabary for the communication of a natural language) with a set of something else, such as natural numbers, octet sequences or electrical pulses, in order to facilitate the storage of text in computers and the transmission of text through telecommunication networks. Common examples include Morse code, which encodes letters of the Latin alphabet as series of long and short depressions of a telegraph key; and ASCII, which encodes letters, numerals, and other symbols, both as integers and as 7- bit binary versions of those integers (generally zero extended to 8 bits and stored in an octet). ...more on Wikipedia about "Character encoding"
: CJK can also stand for Centre Jeunes Kamenge. ...more on Wikipedia about "CJK"
Code page is the traditional IBM term used for a specific character encoding table: a mapping in which a sequence of bits, usually a single octet representing integer values 0 through 255, is associated with a specific character. ...more on Wikipedia about "Code page"
DBCS stands for Double Byte Character Set. This term has two basic meanings: ...more on Wikipedia about "DBCS"
Digraphs are two-character sequences used to enter single characters that cannot be entered from the computer keyboard for various reasons: obsolete keyboard, input of special characters is required, the text editor reserves some characters for special use, etc. ...more on Wikipedia about "Digraph (computing)"
In ISO/IEC 646 (commonly known as ASCII) and related standards including ISO 8859 and Unicode, a graphic character is any character intended to be written, printed, or otherwise displayed in a form that can be read by humans. In other words, it is any encoded character that is associated with one or more glyphs. ...more on Wikipedia about "Graphic character"
The term internal code is a word-for-word translation of the Chinese term neima (內碼, 内码; pinyin: nèimă; jyutping: noi6 maa5). The term is primarily used by Chinese people. ...more on Wikipedia about "Internal code"
Computers represent the Korean language in a variety of ways. ...more on Wikipedia about "Korean language and computers"
In computing, a legacy encoding is a character encoding that can't represent all of Unicode, but is still used for compatibility or other reasons. ...more on Wikipedia about "Legacy encoding"
Mojibake is the phenomenon of incorrect, unreadable characters shown when computer software fails to render a text correctly according to its associated character encoding. It is a loanword from the Japanese 文字化け （もじばけ）. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mojibake"
SBCS, or Single Byte Character Set, is sometimes used to refer to character sets which use one byte for each graphic character. ...more on Wikipedia about "SBCS" shortopedia , this is it!
In computer programming and some branches of mathematics, strings are sequences of various simple objects. These simple objects are selected from a predetermined set, each entry of which is usually allocated a code. Most commonly these simple objects will be printable characters and the control codes that are used with them. The data types in which these are stored are also called strings and it is fairly common to use these types to store arbitrary, variable-length sequences of binary data. Generally, a string can be placed directly in the code usually by surrounding it with some form of quote marks (usually ' or ", as these are typeable on most keyboards worldwide). Sometimes the term binary string is used to refer to an arbitrary sequence of bits. ...more on Wikipedia about "String (computer science)"
Unicode is an industry standard whose goal is to provide the means by which text of all forms and languages can be encoded for use by computers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Unicode"
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 symbols) for representation in a computer. Most common variable-width encodings are multibyte encodings, which use varying numbers of bytes ( octets) to encode different characters. ...more on Wikipedia about "Variable-width encoding"
VIetnamese Quoted-Readable, usually abbreviated VIQR, is a convention for writing Vietnamese using ASCII characters. Because the Vietnamese alphabet contains a complex system of diacritical marks, VIQR requires the user to type in a base letter, followed by one or two characters that represent the diacritical marks: ...more on Wikipedia about "Vietnamese Quoted-Readable"
In computer science, white space, whitespace, or a whitespace character is any single character which represents horizontal and/or vertical space in written text, or is a series of such characters. ...more on Wikipedia about "Whitespace (computer science)"
Wide character is a computer programming term. It is a vague term used to represent a datatype that is richer than the traditional 8-bit characters. It is not the same thing as Unicode. ...more on Wikipedia about "Wide character"
In Unicode, two glyphs are said to be Z-variants (often spelled zVariants) if they share the same etymology but have slightly different appearances and different Unicode codepoints. For example, the Unicode characters U+8AAA 說 and U+8AAC 説 are Z-variants. The notion of Z-variance is only applicable to the “ CJK languages” — Chinese, Japanese, and Korean — and is a subtopic of Han unification. ...more on Wikipedia about "Z-variant"
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