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  1. Character encodings for beginners

    Apr 16, 2015 · A character encoding provides a key to unlock (ie. crack) the code. It is a set of mappings between the bytes in the computer and the characters in the character set. Without the key, the data …

  2. encoding - What are Unicode, UTF-8, and UTF-16? - Stack Overflow

    Feb 18, 2022 · An encoding form maps a code point to a code unit sequence. A code unit is the way you want characters to be organized in memory, 8-bit units, 16-bit units and so on. UTF-8 uses one to …

  3. What is character encoding and why should I bother with it

    Apr 10, 2015 · I am quite confused about the concept of character encoding. What is Unicode, GBK, etc? How does a programming language use them? Do I need to bother knowing about them? Is …

  4. Choosing & applying a character encoding

    Mar 31, 2014 · In this context, that key is called a character encoding. This article offers simple advice on which character encoding to use for your content, and how to apply it, ie. how to actually produce …

  5. Declaring character encodings in HTML

    If the new encoding is a UTF-16 encoding, change it to UTF-8." 12.1 text/html [html5:32] "The charset parameter may be provided to definitively specify the document's character encoding, overriding any …

  6. What's the difference between encoding and charset?

    A character-encoding scheme is a mapping between one or more coded character sets and a set of octet (eight-bit byte) sequences. UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO 2022, and EUC are examples of character …

  7. character encoding - Unicode, UTF, ASCII, ANSI format differences ...

    Mar 31, 2009 · What is the difference between the Unicode, UTF8, UTF7, UTF16, UTF32, ASCII, and ANSI encodings? In what way are these helpful for programmers?

  8. urlencode - What is %2C in a URL? - Stack Overflow

    May 31, 2011 · In a URL, what does the %2C encoding mean and what are its uses?

  9. Declaring character encodings in HTML

    Feb 26, 2014 · A character encoding declaration is also needed to process non-ASCII characters entered by the user in forms, in URLs generated by scripts, and so forth. This article describes how …

  10. Tutorial: Character Encoding and Unicode

    Character encoding is a very central and basic necessity for internationalization. For computer communication, characters have to be encoded into bytes. There are very simple encodings, but also …