Character sets and UNICODE
Dr. Peter L. Noerr
Technical Director
Information Management and Engineering Ltd.
London
Abstract
The author explains what character encoding is. Due to the increase of text based computing, users now require that computers are able to recognise and manipulate text in different languages. The code space provided by the 8-bit byte is no longer sufficient. UNICODE provides a unified 16-bit encoding scheme allowing systems to exchange information unambiguously.
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