a mapping from a set of characters to a set of octet sequences
a mapping from a set of characters to their on-disk representation
a mapping (possibly many-to-one) of sequences of octets to sequences of characters taken from one or more character repertoires
a mechanism for representing characters in terms of bits
a method (algorithm) for presenting characters in digital form by mapping sequences of code numbers of characters into sequences of octets
a method of converting bytes into characters
a scheme for representing the characters numerically
a set mapping from characters and symbols to digital representations
Refers to the conversion between a sequence of characters and a sequence of bytes. WML document character encoding is captured in transport headers, attributes, meta information placed within a document, or the XML declaration.
A synonym for coded character set.
Character encoding is a table in a font or a computer operating system which maps character codes to glyphs in a font. Most operating systems today represent character codes with an 8-bit unit of data known as a byte. Thus, character encoding tables today are restricted to at most 256 character codes. Not all operating system manufacturers use the same character encoding. For example, the Macintosh(R) platform uses the standard Macintosh character set as defined by Apple Computer, Inc. while the Windows(TM) operating system uses another encoding entirely, as defined by Microsoft. Fortunately, standard Type 1 fonts contain all the glyphs needed for both these encodings, so they work correctly not only with these two systems, but others as well.
A character encoding is a code that pairs a set of natural language characters (such as an alphabet or syllabary) with a set of something else, such as numbers or electrical pulses. A common example is ASCII, which encodes letters, numerals, and other symbols as both integers, and 7-bit binary versions of those integers
The organization of the numeric codes that represent the characters of a character set in memory.
A one-to-one mapping from a set of characters into a set of numbers, used to represent text in software.
A character encoding or character set (sometimes referred to as code page) consists of a code that pairs a sequence of characters from a given set with something else, such as a sequence of natural numbers, octets or electrical pulses, in order to facilitate the storage of text in computers and the transmission of text through telecommunication networks. Common examples include Morse code, which encodes letters of the Latin alphabet as series of long and short depressions of a telegraph key; and ASCII, which encodes letters, numerals, and other symbols, both as integers and as 7-bit binary versions of those integers, generally extended with an extra zero-bit to facilitate storage in 8-bit bytes (octets).