
#7 What is a Character Encoding?
Kopec Explains Software
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Introduction
In this episode, we talk about how text gets from a file onto your screen. Each individual character has a different number that represents it for the purposes of storage. For example, in most character encodings today, the number 65 is an upper case letter A. So when we store the letter A, we actually store the number 65.
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