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    Management of Information System

    (for business students)

    Class 04: CHARACTER ENCODING

    Julliard Ph.D
    INSCAE
    Feb 2024
    Why? What?
    Text and characters

    How do they translate into binary (0 and 1) ?

    How are they being interpreted (encoded) and displayed on the screen
    (or paper)?

    What should we know?


    Evolution of the Latin alphabet
    Other languages
    Bangla

    Indian
    Hangul
    Hanzi

    Cyrillic

    Amharic (Ethiopia) Arabic


    Morse code (1895)
    Text Input method

    Modern Keyboard
    Qwerty layout
    Typewriter
    Modern Text Encoding Mechanism
    ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange

    First release ~ 1963


    7 bits
    127 characters
    128 possibilities
    95 are printable characters
    Modern Text Encoding Mechanism ASCII
    Problem with ASCII

    7 bits are not enough


    Problem with ASCII
    Harry Potter
    Problem with ASCII
    UNICODE
    Unicode: Unified printing system

    Unicode aims to provide a single, consistent way to represent each


    letter and symbol needed for all human languages across all
    computers and devices

    UTF-8
    Since 1991

    UTF-16

    UTF-24

    UTF-32

    UTF-32 leaves enough room to even create a new language


    New language system
    In the Museum of Modern Art
    (New-York)
    New language system

    Emoji

    -Beware of the Social and cultural usage

    🙏 ???
    New language system
    Geopolitics of emoji

    🏳️‍🌈 🇹🇼
    New language system
    Fun with emoji
    FONTS MATTERS
    Readibility
    Style

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