Unicode outpaces ASCII for encoding Web site text, and life gets easier for Google and others that grapple with an increasingly international Internet.

Unicode could be seen as a universal version of ASCII. ASCII is, after all, the American Code for Information Interchange, and its first iteration included the English-language alphabet and ...

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

Unicode is the native encoding scheme in all major operating systems and the internet. The first block of 128 Unicode characters, Basic Latin, maps precisely to ASCII, including the unusable, obsolete ...

When you’re restricted to ASCII, how can you represent more complex things like emojis or non-Latin characters? One answer is Punycode, which is a way to represent Unicode characters in ASCII… ...

When data is stored or transmitted, it is its ASCII or Unicode number that is used, not the character itself. For example, in binary, the word "Computer" would be represented as: ...

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In internet communications, ASCII has gradually been superseded by the Unicode standard, which can be used with any language and is compatible with ASCII.