Friday, March 11, 2011

ASCII vs. UTF-8

A great table of the 8-bit representation for ASCII: blob.perl.org/books/beginning-perl/3145_AppF.pdf

UTF-8 uses the 7-bit character set and then uses the higher order bit to denote between standard characaters and international ones.

Great background article here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

http://wiki.tcl.tk/515

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