Appendix B - Character Encodings Concepts
This appendix is adapted from a tutorial created by Peter Edberg that was presented at the 11th International Unicode Conference. The original paper will be published in the Proceedings of that conference with a notice indicating joint copyright by Apple Computer, Inc. and the Unicode Consortium.The appendix explores some aspects of character encodings, including
- terms used, such as coded character sets, character encoding schemes, characters, glyphs, and related concepts
- existing character encodings, focusing on important Internet encodings and how these encodings relate to the Unicode standard
- special features of various character encodings
- character data in programming languages
- Internet character encoding registry and encoding naming conventions
Appendix Contents
- B - Terminology
- B - Character Sets and Encoding Schemes
- B - Characters, Glyphs, and Related Terms
- B - Non-Unicode Character Encodings
- B - General Character Set Structure
- B - Simple Coded Character Sets
- B - Packing Schemes for Multiple Character Sets
- B - Code-Switching Schemes for Multiple Character Sets
- B - Unicode
- B - Character Set Features
- B - Repertoire and Semantics
- B - Combining and Conjoining Characters
- B - Ordering Issues
- B - Character Data in Programming Languages