codepages

You can represent the 128 characters of ASCII using 7 bits -- binary digits -- but to represent the 256 characters needed for the various codepages and ISO-8859 standards, like accented letters, you need 8 bits.

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For Unix users, iconv and recode provide translation facilities from one character set to another, and support many or all of the MS codepages.

The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 Jim Tinsley

These codepages are Microsoft-specific character sets which allow the display of accented characters and other symbols.

The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 Jim Tinsley

Of course, most of these codepages are incompatible with each other.

The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 Jim Tinsley

One of the core principles that international support in Windows/Office subscribes to is that there is a difference between the language of the user interface and the language specifying how to format/collate information SQL Server works under slightly different core principles -- with the split being codepages/collation vs.

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* Support of Unicode codepages (UTF-16 little endian, UTF-16 big endian, UTF-8);

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* Support of Unicode codepages (UTF-16 little endian, UTF-16 big endian, UTF-8);

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- Support for the most diverse locale combinations (de-DE, en-GB, etc.) - Support for different encoding schemes (codepages ASCII, ANSI, Unicode, EBCDIC, etc.) - Batch module for scheduled and background automated execution *

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* Support of Unicode codepages (UTF-16 little endian, UTF-16 big endian, UTF-8);

Jumbo Software Updates 2010

* Support of Unicode codepages (UTF-16 little endian, UTF-16 big endian, UTF-8);

Jumbo Software Updates 2010