Kbase P122326: What is the difference between Code Pages and Character Sets?
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
05/09/2007 |
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Status: Unverified
GOAL:
What is the difference between Code Pages and Character Sets?
GOAL:
What is the difference between Character Sets and Code Pages?
FIX:
Characters are usually thought of as the smallest element of writing that has a meaning. It could be a punctuation mark, spacing character, letter, word, letter modifier or symbol.
Character Sets are a collection of characters that are useful, usually for a particular script or scripts. Sometimes the term Character Set is used as a synonym for Code Page. Character Sets however can be collections without a method of coding them. One example of Character Sets is LATIN-1 which contains letters and symbols of the Latin Western European language.
Code Pages contain multiple sets of characters. Code Pages, also named Coded Character Sets, are Character Sets where each character has been assigned a numerical representation. This allows characters to be mapped to binary values and back to the same character. Often Code Pages are referenced by particular implementation. For example, ISO-8859-1 is the canonical code page for the Latin-1 character set; on Windows, it has been extended to a specific code page called CP-1252.