Daffodil International University
IT Help Desk => IT Forum => Topic started by: kazi shahin on August 22, 2010, 10:09:12 PM
-
All character encoding does is assign a number to every character that can be used. I could if I really wanted to make a character encoding right now. For example, I could say "A" becomes the number 13, "a" = 14, "1" = 33, "#" = 123 and so on. My character encoding scheme might work brilliantly on my computer but when I come to send some text to another computer I will have problems. It won't know what I'm talking about unless it understands my encoding scheme too.
This is where industry wide standards come in. If the whole computer industry uses the same character encoding scheme, all the computers can display the same characters.