ASCII and EPSIDIC
What is a “Character Set?”
A character set is a collection or library of characters, (letters and symbols), and their identifying number. Included with the printable characters, (letters and punctuation) are some unprintable yet important characters. Characters are used to form messages.
Characters are not fonts. Characters exist under the font that represent the definition of the character the font is attempting to display. When you change the font on a document the A is changed to an A, but the underlying character that identifies its meaning remains the same. The font identifies how the character is displayed. You can even convert to Wing Dings and the underlying character remains the same. (more…)
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009