Merkistömäärityksen
Merkistömääritys, often translated as character encoding, is a fundamental concept in computer science that describes the process of assigning a unique numerical value to each character in a given set, such as letters, numbers, and symbols. This numerical representation allows computers to store, process, and transmit text data. Without a standardized way to map characters to numbers, different systems would interpret the same sequence of bytes in different ways, leading to garbled or incorrect text.
Historically, various character encodings have been developed, each with its own set of characters and corresponding
The advent of Unicode has largely addressed these challenges. Unicode is a universal character encoding standard