Character SET and Character Encoding - What are they, what are they for?

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What are they, what are they for?

  • Character SET
  • Character Encoding
asked by anonymous 07.04.2016 / 15:31

1 answer

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Basically:

Charset : Set of characters that you can use.
Encoding : This is how these characters are stored in memory.

I suggest reading the source, this topic in SOEn . Or even this article .

    
07.04.2016 / 15:55