Unicode outpaces ASCII for encoding Web site text, and life gets easier for Google and others that grapple with an increasingly international Internet.

What other common (or uncommon I suppose...) text encoding formats are there besides ASCII and Unicode.I know that in ASCII the string 12345 would be stored as 3132333435. I've seen that string ...

Unicode could be seen as a universal version of ASCII. ASCII is, after all, the American Code for Information Interchange, and its first iteration included the English-language alphabet and ...

See ASCII and Unicode. ANSI/WINDOWS AND ISO CODE PAGES (ISO and ANSI/Windows are not identical.) ANSI/ Language Name Windows ISO WESTERN EUROPE: English Spanish French German Italian Portuguese ...

As a result, several variations of ASCII emerged to support accents and non-Roman characters. To address these problems an entirely new standard, Unicode, was devised starting in the late 1980s.