Most readers will have at least some passing familiarity with the terms ‘Unicode’ and ‘UTF-8’, but what is really behind them? At their core they refer to character encoding schemes, also known as ...

What other common (or uncommon I suppose...) text encoding formats are there besides ASCII and Unicode.<BR><BR>I know that in ASCII the string 12345 would be stored as 3132333435. I've seen that ...

‘A’ is represented by the decimal number 65 (binary 1000001, hex 41), ‘B’ by 66 (binary 1000010, hex 42) and so on up to ‘Z’, which is represented by the decimal number 90 (binary 1011010, hex 5A).