One of the most important aspects of the text input process is the encoding of the text which you are working with. It must be encoded as either UTF8(8-bit Unicode Character Encoding)
Unicode character encoding is an evolution of the ASCII set to permit support of a greater number of alphanumeric characters including those with diacritical marks such as accents. More information on UTF-8 is available at Wikipedia.
Return to Glossary. or Latin-1, which provides proper mapping of accented and other extended characters. See the links below for more background information on encoding processes. For example, when properly encoded the character 'e' is differentiated from the character 'é' and 'é' is not seen as the character 'e' + some symbol.
For more information on Text Encoding One of the most important aspects of the text input process is the encoding of the text which you are working with. It must be encoded as either UTF8 or Latin-1, which provides proper mapping of accented and other extended characters. See the links below for more background information on encoding processes. For example, when properly encoded the character 'e' is differentiated from the character 'é' and 'é' is not seen as the character 'e' + some symbol.
For more information on Text Encoding see Text Encoding at Wikipedia.
Return to Glossary. see Text Encoding at Wikipedia.