Unicode Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v5.32, by Herong Yang
What Is Character Set
This section provides a quick introduction of some basic concepts like character set, coded character set, code point, character encoding.
What Is a Character Set? A character set is a collection of characters used in the a language, and/or symbols used in a symbolic system. Examples of character set: numeric numbers, alphabetical letters, and Chinese characters.
What Is a Coded Character Set? A coded character set is a character set in which each character has an assigned integral number. Examples of coded character set: US-ASCII, EBCDIC, ISO-8859-1, GB2312-1980, and Unicode. Note that:
What Is a Code Point? A code point is an integral number assigned to a character in a coded character set.
What Is a Character Encoding A character encoding is a map scheme between code points of a coded character set and sequences of bytes. Note that:
Table of Contents
Commonly Used Character Sets and Encodings
ASCII Character Set and Encoding
GB2312 Character Set and Encoding
GB18030 Character Set and Encoding
JIS X0208 Character Set and Encodings
UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format - 8-Bit)
UTF-16, UTF-16BE and UTF-16LE Encodings
UTF-32, UTF-32BE and UTF-32LE Encodings
Python Language and Unicode Characters
Java Language and Unicode Characters
Encoding Conversion Programs for Encoded Text Files
Using Notepad as a Unicode Text Editor
Using Microsoft Word as a Unicode Text Editor