Character Encoding

TYPO3

Description

Assigning numbers to graphical characters for storing and transmitting them with computers.

I know

what a character encoding is.
why different character encodings exist.
which problems can occur if different character encodings are used for reading/writing the same file when exchanging data between different systems.

I can

name one or more commonly used character encodings
make use of software of my choice to find out which character encoding a text based file is based on

Torben Freudewald