ASCII 7 128 Letters, numerals, and special characters from the US keyboard; control characters for teleprinters ISO Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1) 8 256 The 128 characters from ASCII, as well as 128 special characters from European languages Universal Coded Character Set 2 (UCS-2) 16 65,536 The...
Various relationships may exist between char acter and glyph: a single glyph may corre- spond to a single character or to a number of characters, or multiple glyphs may result from a single character.The distinction between characters and glyphs is illustrated inFigure 2-2 字符扮...
The original character set of the IBM PC, with box drawing characters. Incompatible with latin1, which appeared later. gb2312 Legacy standard to encode the simplified Chinese ideographs used in mainland China; one of several widely deployed multibyte encodings for Asian languages. utf-8 The most ...
When you use only character columns and code pages, you must take care to ensure that the database is installed with a code page that will handle the characters of all three languages. You must also take care to guarantee the correct translation of characters from any of the languages when...
Contains characters for almost all modern languages (Latin characters, Asian characters, etc.) and many symbols. Plane 1: Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP), 0x10000–0x1FFFF Supports historic writing systems (e.g., Egyptian hieroglyphs and cuneiform) and additional modern writing systems. ...
range U+10000 to U+10FFFF is divided by Unicode 3.01 into 16 planes, only three of which have so far been used to encode supplementary characters used primarily to encode historical and classical literary documents from the rich heritage of the Chinese, Korean, and Japanese (Asian) languages....
Contains characters for almost all modern languages (Latin characters, Asian characters, etc.) and many symbols. Plane 1: Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP), 0x10000–0x1FFFF Supports historic writing systems (e.g., Egyptian hieroglyphs and cuneiform) and additional modern writing systems. ...
One implementation of Unicode characters, favored in western countries, isUTF-8due to its transparency withASCII. In this format a character is one or morebyteslong. The default format isUTF-16which is favored in East Asian countries due to its smaller size. The minimal size of a character ...
However, when you go for Asian characters, you require minimum of two bytes and maximum of four bytes. Similarly, emojis require three to four bytes. UTF-8 will solve all your needs. UTF-16 will allocate minimum 2 bytes and maximum of 4 bytes per character, it will not allocate 1 or ...
The most common characters will use 1 (e.g. English) or 2 bytes (most western languages, Arabic, Cyrillic, etc.), except for Asian languages, that will usually require 3 bytes per character. 4 bytes are only required when you need to go beyond the basic plane. UTF-8 is so popular ...