Unicode has overtaken ASCII as the most popular character encoding scheme on the World Wide Web, Mark Davis, Google's senior international software architect, said in a blog post.

What other common (or uncommon I suppose...) text encoding formats are there besides ASCII and Unicode.<BR><BR>I know that in ASCII the string 12345 would be stored as 3132333435. I've seen that ...

Unicode could be seen as a universal version of ASCII. ASCII is, after all, the American Code for Information Interchange, and its first iteration included the English-language alphabet and ...

The second half of the ASCII character set (characters 128 through 255). Designed in the 1960s, ASCII was originally a 7-bit code (0 through 127). To accommodate foreign languages, the DOS code ...

ASCII continues to exist but has been largely replaced by Unicode, which can be used to encode any language. Understanding the American Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) ...