Number Systems
Structure and Format
Packed vs Unpacked BCD
Applications in Computing
Advantages and Limitations
Character Set Structure
Control Characters
Printable Characters
Extended ASCII
Variable-Length Structure
Backward Compatibility
Encoding Rules
Fixed and Variable-Length
Surrogate Pairs
Byte Order Considerations
Fixed-Length Structure
Memory Considerations
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