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With that introduction, you can now choose whether to read the rest of this section which uses more technical terminology. | With that introduction, you can now choose whether to read the rest of this section which uses more technical terminology. | ||
Let me explain that technical term, essentially encoding refers to the character set used by any file. | ''Let me explain that technical term, essentially encoding refers to the character set used by any file''. | ||
A computer uses binary, binary can only be in state 0 or state 1, so a combination of 0 and 1 states needs to be defined for every character you want to represent. What you can include in that character set depends to some extent on how many binary bits are used to be mapped to individual characters; and if more than one byte worth of bits is used the order in which the bits within the multiple bytes are used must be defined for each particular encoding. | A computer uses binary, binary can only be in state 0 or state 1, so a combination of 0 and 1 states needs to be defined for every character you want to represent. What you can include in that character set depends to some extent on how many binary bits are used to be mapped to individual characters; and if more than one byte worth of bits is used the order in which the bits within the multiple bytes are used must be defined for each particular encoding. | ||