character-encoding

Character encoding - a fundamental part of software internationalisation

Software constructed for the global market must be aware of regional differences, such as different languages, culture dependent formatting and customised user interfaces. Without a character encoding technique, which can handle all characters used worldwide, every software needs to add its own support for handling different character sets. Since this is a non-trivial task, the overhead to globalise and internationalise a software would be a huge impact on development time and costs. Therefore, a uniform code that can interpret all known characters is needed as the foundation of all internationalisation tasks in software development. The current solution, Unicode, solves this problem for the most part. Although not all problems were resolved by it.