Map Development Area (MDA)
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misc
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encoding
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character-encoding
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mostly character sets and encodings were defined at the same time -- but they are two different things
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example
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Unicode offers several encoding options
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examples
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ISO 8859-1 (west european), ISO 8859-2 (east-european), ... all need one byte
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Comment:
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characters are represented by a number -- numbers have to be encoded somehow for binary representation
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example
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ASCII encoding: 'A' encoded binary 65, 'B' as binary 66, ..., needs only 7 bits
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example
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EUC (Extended Unix Character) is both, encoding and character set
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Comment:
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algorithm to map a character set to a byte sequence
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example
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EBCDIC encoding: 'A' encoded as 193 in one byte, 'B' as 194 one byte, needs 8 bits
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