The history of character codes illustrates the evolving need for machine-mediated character-based symbolic information over a distance, using … See more

Informally, the terms "character encoding", "character map", "character set" and "code page" are often used interchangeably. Historically, the same standard would specify a repertoire of characters and how they were to be encoded into a stream of code units — … See more

As a result of having many character encoding methods in use (and the need for backward compatibility with archived data), many computer programs have been developed to … See more

• Mackenzie, Charles E. (1980). Coded Character Sets, History and Development (PDF). The Systems Programming Series (1 ed.). Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. See more

Unicode and its parallel standard, the ISO/IEC 10646 Universal Character Set, together constitute a unified standard for character encoding. Rather than mapping characters directly to See more

• Percent-encoding
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• Character sets registered by Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
• Characters and encodings, by Jukka Korpela
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