Character encoding
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** [[Windows 1258]] (Vietnamese) | ** [[Windows 1258]] (Vietnamese) | ||
| − | == | + | == Format details == |
* [[Byte Order Mark]] | * [[Byte Order Mark]] | ||
| + | * [[C0 controls]] (ASCII control characters, 7 bit) | ||
| + | * [[C1 controls]] (extended control characters, 8 bit) | ||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
Revision as of 13:34, 27 November 2012
| File Formats | > | Electronic File Formats | > | Character Encodings |
- Adobe Standard Encoding
- APL code page
- ARMSCII
- ASCII
- ANSEL
- ATASCII (used by Atari computers)
- Baudot code
- Braille
- EBCDIC
- IBM PC code pages
- ISO 646
- ISO 646-CA (Canada / French)
- ISO 646-CA-2 (Canada / French)
- ISO 646-CH (Switzerland)
- ISO 646-CN (China / Basic Latin)
- ISO 646-CU (Cuba / Spanish)
- ISO 646-DE (Germany)
- ISO 646-DK (Denmark)
- ISO 646-FI (Finland)
- ISO 646-FR (France)
- ISO 646-GB (Great Britain)
- ISO 646-HU (Hungary)
- ISO 646-IRV (International Reference Version)
- ISO 646-IT (Italy)
- ISO 646-JP (Japan / Romaji)
- ISO 646-JP OCR-B (Japan / Romaji)
- ISO 646-KR (Korea / Latin)
- ISO 646-MT (Malta)
- ISO 646-NL (Netherlands)
- ISO 646-NO (Norway)
- ISO 646-NO-2 (Norway)
- ISO 646-PT (Portugal)
- ISO 646-SE (Sweden)
- ISO 646-SE-2 (Sweden)
- ISO 646-US (Same as ASCII)
- ISO 646-YU (Yugoslavia)
- ISO 2022
- ISO 8859
- ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1)
- ISO 8859-2 (Latin-2, Central/East European)
- ISO 8859-3 (Latin-3, Esperanto, Galician, Maltese, and Turkish)
- ISO 8859-4 (Latin-4, Scandinavian and Baltic)
- ISO 8859-5 (Cyrillic)
- ISO 8859-6 (Arabic)
- ISO 8859-7 (Modern Greek)
- ISO 8859-8 (Hebrew)
- ISO 8859-9 (Latin-5, Turkish)
- ISO 8859-10 (Latin-6, Lappish, Nordic, and Inuit)
- ISO 8859-11 (Thai)
- ISO 8859-13 (Latin-7, Baltic Rim)
- ISO 8859-14 (Celtic)
- ISO 8859-15 (Latin-9, Latin-1 with a Euro sign)
- ISO 8859-16 (Romanian)
- JIS
- KOI8
- Macintosh encodings
- Morse code
- MS-DOS encodings
- PETSCII (or PET ASCII or CBM ASCII; used by Commodore computers)
- Unicode
- VISCII
- Windows encodings
- Windows 1252 (ISO 8859-1 plus additional characters)
- Windows 1255 (Hebrew)
- Windows 1256 (Arabic, Farsi, Urdu)
- Windows 1257 (Baltic Rim)
- Windows 1258 (Vietnamese)
Format details
- Byte Order Mark
- C0 controls (ASCII control characters, 7 bit)
- C1 controls (extended control characters, 8 bit)
External links
- The Evolution of Character Codes, 1874–1968
- Collection of character encodings
- The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) by Joel Spolsky
References
- Ken Lunde, CJKV Information Processing, O'Reilly 2008, ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1 (has lots of information on encodings and Unicode in general, not only for CJKV locales)
