Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > "ASCII" means two things: Firstly, it's a mapping from the letter A to > the number 65, from the exclamation mark to 33, from the backslash to > 92, and so on. And secondly, it's an encoding of those numbers into > the lowest seven bits of a byte, with the high byte left clear. > Between those two, you get a means of representing the letter 'A' as > the byte 0x41, and one of them is an encoding.
The American Standard Code for Information Interchange [...] is a character-encoding scheme [...] <URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII> > "Unicode", on the other hand, is only the first part. It maps all the > same characters to the same numbers that ASCII does, and then adds a > few more... a few followed by a few, followed by... okay, quite a lot > more. Unicode specifies that the character OK HAND SIGN, which looks > like 👌 if you have the right font, is number 1F44C in hex (128076 > decimal). This is the "Universal Character Set" or UCS. Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text [...] <URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode> Each standard assigns numbers to letters and other symbols. In a word, each is a code. That's what their names say, too. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
