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Herong's Tutorial Notes on Unicode

Version 4.02

Dr. Herong Yang

Copyright © 1997-2007 by Dr. Herong Yang. All rights reserved.

Table of Contents

About This Book

Character Sets and Encodings

• Definitions
• Commonly Used Character Sets and Encodings

GB2312 Character Set and Encodings

• GB2312 Character Set
• EUC-CN Encoding

GB18030 Character Set and Encoding

• History of GB Character Set
• GB18030-2000 Encoding

JIS X0208 Character Set and Encodings

• JIS X0208 Character Set
• EUC-JP Encoding
• ISO-2022-JP Encoding
• Shift-JIS Encoding

Unicode Character Set

• What is Unicode

Unicode Transformation Formats (UTF)

• UTF-8 Encoding
• UTF-16LE Encoding
• UTF-16BE Encoding

JDK - Character Set and Encoding

• What is a Character Encoding
• Supported Character Encodings
• Methods to Encode Characters
• Methods to Decode Byte Sequences

JDK - Encoding Maps

• Encoding Map Analyzer
• US-ASCII
• ISO-8859-1 - Latin 1
• CP1252 - Windows-1252
• UTF-8
• UTF-16
• UTF-16LE
• UTF-16BE

JDK - Encoding Map Counts

• Encoding Map Counter
• Comparison of Encoding Maps

JDK - Encoding Conversion

• Unicode Data Entry
• Unicode Encoding Conversion
• Viewing Unicode Text
• Unicode Signs in Different Encodings

References

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