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Encoding Schemes

Encoding Schemes

What is Encoding?
Process of converting data from one form to another form is
called encoding. In Computer Science encoding is converting
data (numbers, alphabets, symbols, spaces, graphics etc.)
into binary codes.

Why Encoding?
Platform Independency
Internationalization
Security
Effective Communication
There are various standard encoding schemes each part of
data is assigned a unique code. Some of the popular encoding
schemes are mentioned below:

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)


Formally began in 1960 and later promoted by ANSI
Standard common way to encode and represent keys of
keyboard understood by every computer.
It Uses 7-bits to represent any character.
It represents (encodes) total 27= 128 characters. (Because
of 7-bit representation)
It can represent (encode) character set of English language
only.
ISCII (Indian Standard Code for Information Interchange)

Introduced by Bureau of Indian Standard (BIS) in 1991.


Standard encoding scheme to represent Indian Scripts.
It uses 8-bits to represent characters.
It represents total 2 = 256 characters.
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It supports 10 different Indian languages which are:


Devanagari, Punjabi, Bengali, Gujarati, Oriya, Telugu,
Assamese, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Roman.
UNICODE
It has been developed to represent all the characters of
every written language of world.
It can represent near about 1,000,000 characters
It may be 8-bit, 16-bit or 32-bit
It is superset of ASCII
UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 are some common Unicode
encodings among which UTF-8 is most commonly used.

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