In computing, a character encoding is used to represent a repertoire of characters by some kind of an encoding system. Depending on the abstraction level and context, corresponding code points and the resulting code space may be regarded as bit patterns, octets, natural numbers, electrical pulses, etc. A character encoding is used in both computat...
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Character encoding is the way computers store text. A table in a font or a computer operating system matches up numerical codes to the relevant shape in a font. Not all operating system use the same character encoding, with Macintosh and Windows using different systems.
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