Character encodings for beginners
A character encoding provides a key to unlock (ie. crack) the code. It is a set of mappings between the bytes in the computer and the characters in the character set. Without the key, …
encoding - What are Unicode, UTF-8, and UTF-16? - Stack Overflow
An encoding form maps a code point to a code unit sequence. A code unit is the way you want characters to be organized in memory, 8-bit units, 16-bit units and so on. UTF-8 uses one to …
What is character encoding and why should I bother with it
I am quite confused about the concept of character encoding. What is Unicode, GBK, etc? How does a programming language use them? Do I need to bother knowing about them? Is there a …
Authoring web pages
Background reading Character encodings for beginners What is a character encoding, and why should I care? Introducing character sets and encodings A brief introduction to some of the …
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Note that if the specified character set includes 8-bit data, a Content-Transfer- Encoding header field and a corresponding encoding on the data are required in order to transmit the body via …
What is the difference between UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 encodings?
UTF-8 is a multibyte encoding that can represent any Unicode character. ISO 8859-1 is a single-byte encoding that can represent the first 256 Unicode characters. Both encode ASCII exactly …
Declaring character encodings in HTML
If the new encoding is a UTF-16 encoding, change it to UTF-8." 12.1 text/html [html5:32] "The charset parameter may be provided to definitively specify the document's character encoding, …
What's the difference between encoding and charset?
A character-encoding scheme is a mapping between one or more coded character sets and a set of octet (eight-bit byte) sequences. UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO 2022, and EUC are examples of …
HTTP/1.1: Header Field Definitions
14.11 Content-Encoding The Content-Encoding entity-header field is used as a modifier to the media-type. When present, its value indicates what additional content codings have been …
Unicode (UTF-8) reading and writing to files in Python
See the codecs module for the list of supported encodings. So by adding encoding='utf-8' as a parameter to the open function, the file reading and writing is all done as utf8 (which is also …