Character Sets
Character Sets
Tables with every position represents an
alphanumeric character, accent mark, special symbol
or control character
- ASCII 1 byte - 7 bit 128 characters (English)
- ISO 8859-x 1 byte - 8 bit 256 characters(Latin-based
x=1,2,3,4,9,2,10, Cyrillic x=5,
Arabic x=6, Greek x=7,
Hebrew x=8)
- UNICODE 2 bytes - 16 bits 65536 characters
- ISO 10646-1 4 bytes - 32 bits > 4,000,000,000 characters
- Other not widespread standards (EBCDIC, ISO 2022, etc.)