Character encoding (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Character encoding" in English language version.

Last modified: 12:28:04, 20 August 2026 (UTC)

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143unicode.org

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74microsoft.com

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22web.archive.org

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22bitsavers.org

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21w3techs.com

low place

21android.com

4,524^th place

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11techterms.com

low place

11smartbear.com

low place

11ghostarchive.org

64^th place

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11sr-ix.com

low place

11books.google.com

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11vt100.net

low place

11oracle.com

2,532^nd place

1,847^th place

11galloway.me.uk

low place

android.com (Global: 4,524^th place; English: 5,062^nd place)

developer.android.com

"Charset". Android Developers. Retrieved 2 January 2021. Android note: The Android platform default is always UTF-8.

bitsavers.org (Global: 3,844^th place; English: 1,960^th place)

"IBM Electronic Data-Processing Machines Type 702 Preliminary Manual of Information" (PDF). 1954. p. 80. 22-6173-1. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 October 2022 – via bitsavers.org.
"UNIVAC System" (PDF) (reference card).

books.google.com (Global: 3^rd place; English: 3^rd place)

Strelho, Kevin (15 April 1985). "IBM Drives Hard Disks to New Standards". InfoWorld. Popular Computing Inc. pp. 29–33. Retrieved 10 November 2020.

galloway.me.uk (Global: low place; English: low place)

Galloway, Matt (9 October 2012). "Character encoding for iOS developers. Or UTF-8 what now?". Matt Galloway. Retrieved 2 January 2021. in reality, you usually just assume UTF-8 since that is by far the most common encoding.

ghostarchive.org (Global: 64^th place; English: 28^th place)

"IBM Electronic Data-Processing Machines Type 702 Preliminary Manual of Information" (PDF). 1954. p. 80. 22-6173-1. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 October 2022 – via bitsavers.org.

microsoft.com (Global: 263^rd place; English: 259^th place)

learn.microsoft.com

Shawn Steele (15 March 2005). "What's the difference between an Encoding, Code Page, Character Set and Unicode?". Microsoft Docs.
"MultiByteToWideChar function (stringapiset.h)". Microsoft Docs. 13 October 2021.
"WideCharToMultiByte function (stringapiset.h)". Microsoft Docs. 9 August 2022.

docs.microsoft.com

"Encoding.Convert Method". Microsoft .NET Framework Class Library.

oracle.com (Global: 2,532^nd place; English: 1,847^th place)

docs.oracle.com

"Terminology (The Java Tutorials)". Oracle. Retrieved 25 March 2018.

smartbear.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

blog.smartbear.com

Tom Henderson (17 April 2014). "Ancient Computer Character Code Tables – and Why They're Still Relevant". Smartbear. Archived from the original on 30 April 2014. Retrieved 29 April 2014.

sr-ix.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

Tom Jennings (20 April 2016). "An annotated history of some character codes". Sensitive Research. Retrieved 1 November 2018.

techterms.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Character Encoding Definition". The Tech Terms Dictionary. 24 September 2010.

unicode.org (Global: 691^st place; English: 581^st place)

"Glossary of Unicode Terms". Unicode Consortium.
Whistler, Ken; Freytag, Asmus (11 November 2022). "UTR#17: Unicode Character Encoding Model". Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
"Chapter 3: Conformance". The Unicode Standard Version 15.0 – Core Specification (PDF). Unicode Consortium. September 2022. ISBN 978-1-936213-32-0.

vt100.net (Global: low place; English: low place)

"VT510 Video Terminal Programmer Information". Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). 7.1. Character Sets - Overview. Archived from the original on 26 January 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2017. In addition to traditional DEC and ISO character sets, which conform to the structure and rules of ISO 2022, the VT510 supports a number of IBM PC code pages (page numbers in IBM's standard character set manual) in PCTerm mode to emulate the console terminal of industry-standard PCs.

w3techs.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Usage Survey of Character Encodings broken down by Ranking". W3Techs. Retrieved 1 January 2026.

web.archive.org (Global: 1^st place; English: 1^st place)

Tom Henderson (17 April 2014). "Ancient Computer Character Code Tables – and Why They're Still Relevant". Smartbear. Archived from the original on 30 April 2014. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
"VT510 Video Terminal Programmer Information". Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). 7.1. Character Sets - Overview. Archived from the original on 26 January 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2017. In addition to traditional DEC and ISO character sets, which conform to the structure and rules of ISO 2022, the VT510 supports a number of IBM PC code pages (page numbers in IBM's standard character set manual) in PCTerm mode to emulate the console terminal of industry-standard PCs.

Character encoding (English Wikipedia)

android.com (Global: 4,524th place; English: 5,062nd place)

developer.android.com

bitsavers.org (Global: 3,844th place; English: 1,960th place)

books.google.com (Global: 3rd place; English: 3rd place)

galloway.me.uk (Global: low place; English: low place)

ghostarchive.org (Global: 64th place; English: 28th place)

microsoft.com (Global: 263rd place; English: 259th place)

learn.microsoft.com

docs.microsoft.com

oracle.com (Global: 2,532nd place; English: 1,847th place)

docs.oracle.com

smartbear.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

blog.smartbear.com

sr-ix.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

techterms.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

unicode.org (Global: 691st place; English: 581st place)

vt100.net (Global: low place; English: low place)

w3techs.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

web.archive.org (Global: 1st place; English: 1st place)

android.com (Global: 4,524^th place; English: 5,062^nd place)

bitsavers.org (Global: 3,844^th place; English: 1,960^th place)

books.google.com (Global: 3^rd place; English: 3^rd place)

ghostarchive.org (Global: 64^th place; English: 28^th place)

microsoft.com (Global: 263^rd place; English: 259^th place)

oracle.com (Global: 2,532^nd place; English: 1,847^th place)

unicode.org (Global: 691^st place; English: 581^st place)

web.archive.org (Global: 1^st place; English: 1^st place)