- 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, the data looks like garbage The misleading term charset is often used to refer to what are in reality character encodings
- encoding - What are Unicode, UTF-8, and UTF-16? - Stack Overflow
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 uses one to four units of eight bits, and UTF-16 uses one or two units of 16 bits, to cover the entire Unicode of 21 bits maximum
- What is character encoding and why should I bother with it
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 them? Is there a simpler or fas
- Whats the difference between encoding and charset?
A character-encoding scheme is a mapping between one or more coded character sets and a set of octet (eight-bit byte) sequences UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO 2022, and EUC are examples of character-encoding schemes
- character encoding - Unicode, UTF, ASCII, ANSI format differences . . .
What is the difference between the Unicode, UTF8, UTF7, UTF16, UTF32, ASCII, and ANSI encodings? In what way are these helpful for programmers?
- What is the difference between UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 encodings?
UTF-8 is a multibyte encoding that can represent any Unicode character ISO 8859-1 is a single-byte encoding that can represent the first 256 Unicode characters Both encode ASCII exactly the same way
- urlencode - What is %2C in a URL? - Stack Overflow
In a URL, what does the %2C encoding mean and what are its uses?
- What encoding does open() use by default? - Stack Overflow
The default UTF-8 encoding of Python 3 only extends to conversions between bytes and str types open() instead chooses an appropriate default encoding based on the environment: encoding is the name of the encoding used to decode or encode the file This should only be used in text mode The default encoding is platform dependent (whatever locale getpreferredencoding() returns), but any text
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