The origin and evolution of the character set encoding

 

 

Character (Character) is a general term for a variety of text and symbols,

Including the national characters, punctuation marks, graphic symbols, numbers, and so on. Character Set (Character set) is a collection of characters,

More types of characters, different number of characters for each character set included

Common character set name: ASCII character set, GB2312 character set, BIG5 character set, GB18030 character set, Unicode character sets.

To accurately handle a variety of computer language character sets, on the need for character encoding ,

So that the computer can recognize and store a variety of text.

A large number of Chinese characters, but also into Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese characters written in two different rules,

The computer is based on the original English single -byte character design,

Therefore, the Chinese characters are encoded,

Chinese is the technical foundation for information exchange.