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Character Encodings Concepts

This appendix is adapted from a tutorial created by Peter Edberg that was presented at the 11th International Unicode Conference. The original paper will be published in the Proceedings of that conference with a notice indicating joint copyright by Apple Computer, Inc. and the Unicode Consortium.

The appendix explores some aspects of character encodings, including

• terms used, such as coded character sets, character encoding schemes, characters, glyphs, and related concepts

• existing character encodings, focusing on important Internet encodings and how these encodings relate to the Unicode standard

• special features of various character encodings

• character data in programming languages

• Internet character encoding registry and encoding naming conventions

Terminology

Non-Unicode Character Encodings

Packing Schemes for Multiple Character Sets

Code-Switching Schemes for Multiple Character Sets

Unicode

Character Set Features

Character Data in Programming Languages