Character Sets and Encodings

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This chapter provides notes and tutorial examples on character sets and encodings. Topics including introduction of character set and encoding; commonly used character sets and encodings.

What Is Character Set?

Commonly Used Character Sets and Encodings

Conclusions:

• A character set is a collection of characters.
• A character encoding a schema that maps each character in a character set to a unique sequence of bytes.
• Unicode is a character set.
• UTF-8 is a character encoding for the Unicode character set.