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, …
encoding - What are Unicode, UTF-8, and UTF-16? - Stack Overflow
2022年2月18日 · 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 …
What is character encoding and why should I bother with it
2015年4月10日 · 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 …
Encoding - World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
2014年9月4日 · 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 …
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 …
Difference between encoding and encryption - Stack Overflow
2016年1月14日 · 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 …
character encoding - Unicode, UTF, ASCII, ANSI format differences ...
2009年3月31日 · What is the difference between the Unicode, UTF8, UTF7, UTF16, UTF32, ASCII, and ANSI encodings? In what way are these helpful for programmers?
Why are there different encoding types? - Stack Overflow
2012年4月10日 · This is a noob question, but I wanna know why there are different encoding types and what are their differences (ie. ASCII, utf-8 and 16, base64, etc.)
How do I correct the character encoding of a file?
2017年2月14日 · Do you know the original encoding of the file (assuming it was converted at some point from one charset to another)? If so, you should be able to map from the resulting …
encoding - What is the difference between UTF-8 and Unicode?
2009年3月14日 · 34 UTF-8 is an encoding scheme for Unicode text. It is becoming the best supported and best known text encoding for Unicode text in many contexts, especially the …