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encoding - What are Unicode, UTF-8, and UTF-16? - Stack Overflow
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 four units of eight bits, and UTF-16 uses one or two units of 16 bits, to cover the entire Unicode of 21 bits maximum.
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Character encodings for beginners
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 looks like garbage. The misleading term charset is often used to refer to what are in reality character encodings.
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What is character encoding and why should I bother with it
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 there a simpler or fas...
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What is encoding - Internationalization
Other Unicode characters map to one, three or four bytes in the UTF-8 encoding. But UTF-8 is only one of the possible ways of encoding Unicode characters. This means that a codepoint in the Unicode character set can actually be represented by different byte sequences, depending on which encoding was used.
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What is the difference between the Unicode, UTF8, UTF7, UTF16, UTF32, ASCII, and ANSI encodings? In what way are these helpful for programmers?
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Encoding - World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
The utf-8 encoding is the most appropriate encoding for interchange of Unicode, the universal coded character set. Therefore for new protocols and formats, as well as existing formats deployed in new contexts, this specification requires (and defines) the utf-8 encoding. The other (legacy) encodings have been defined to some extent in the past.
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Choosing & applying a character encoding
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 a document in that encoding. If you need to better understand what characters and character encodings are, see the article Character encodings for ...
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Difference between encoding and encryption - Stack Overflow
An encoding algorithm that is kept secret is a form of encryption, but quite vulnerable (it takes skill and time to devise any kind of encryption, and by definition you can't have someone else create such an encoding algorithm for you - or you would have to kill them).
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Encoding utf-8 permite acentos? - Stack Overflow em Português
Se fizermos # encoding: utf-8 na primeira linha de um programa Python, conseguimos fazer acentos no código todo?
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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 more complicated ones. Over the years and around the world, a long list of corporate, national, and regional encodings has developed, which cover different sets of characters. The most complicated and ...