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Introduction to Character Encoding

In this article, we will learn about popular character encoding schemes and how we can use them in real life.

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32 min readNov 15, 2019

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The encoding by definition is a way to convert data from one format to another. When we have some text (sequence of characters) and we want to…

Uday Hiwarale

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