Character code

With the invention of the computer, the conversion of binary character coding into bit sequences began. In order to be able to assign displayable characters to these bit sequences, translation tables had to be created be created. In 1963, the ASA defined the first 7-bit variant of ASCII code, which should standardize the character encodings. In 1964, a proprietary 8-bit character code, EBCDIC, was introduced. To date, both will Character encoding applied in the computer world. Since different diacritics are used for different languages, there are special charsets for language groups. With the ISO 8859 series of standards, the ISO has character encodings all European languages ??and Tai standardized. In 1991, the Unicode Consortium published a first edition of the standard of the same name, the had the goal of specifying all characters of the existing languages ??in code form. The UNIcode is concomitant with the international standard ISO 10646.