Glossary · Computer science
Character encoding
A rule for turning text characters into numbers a computer can store, such as ASCII or UTF-8.
Where it comes up
You will meet character encoding in 1 prompt of Icillion. Of the 28 answers they accept, only 20 reach The Deep or below.
Some examples
Taken from “Name a character encoding or character set”, among the ones people know best:
- ASCII
- UTF 8
- Unicode
- UTF 16
- UTF 32
- Latin 1
- Windows 1252
- EBCDIC
Trivia prompts about character encoding
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