Character Sets, Main Reference

Character Sets, Main Reference

Computer character sets are a Tower of Babel. It is not necessary to understand all the complexities in order to use Concordance, and it is a good idea to avoid the complications as far as possible. But if you are having difficulties with strange characters or while working with different languages, the following reference information should shed some light.

Remember that Concordance is not a Unicode program. Because it is written to work on all versions of Windows, it uses the ANSI (Windows) character set. Unicode files need conversion before they can be used.

ASCII Character Set
MS Windows ANSI Character Set
Extended Character Sets
Extended Character Set (ECS) on the PC
Entering Extended Characters with Alt-Num
Unicode: A Universal Character Set
The ISO-Latin-1 Character set: European Characters on Web Pages

Character sets according to Microsoft

Languages, locales, and keyboard layouts - terminology

Acknowledgments: Some of the reference information on character sets is derived from materials originated by Hewlett-Packard and subsequently placed in the public domain. Information about Microsoft systems is derived from Microsoft publications.
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