Internationalization , ‘i18n’ for short. Some Web site or service need to i18n for all world visitor. There are a lots kind of character set, sorting order, and calendars and so on. For example, in Japan the time stamp is used Chinese character and numerical character. “2021年12月23日12時34分56秒” stand for 12:34:56, 2021/12/23 (hh:mm:ss, yyyy/MM/dd).
Time format
Language
Express
Chinese
二〇二一年十二月二十三日 星期一上午两点三十四分五十六秒
Japanese
2021年12月23日月曜日午前2時34分56秒
Korean
2021 년 12 월 23 일 월요일 오전 2시 34 분 56 초
English
Monday, December 23, 2021 2:34:56 am
Character Code
Single Byte Character Set, SBCS is able to express 1 character by 1 byte. It is mainly used English and European language. 1 byte character set can only represent up to 256 characters. So a lot of language , like Chinese, Japanese is not able to use Single Byte Character Set.
ASCII is one of common single byte code. Its are included Alphabet character(a-z, A-Z), digit(0-9), unreadable character(space, return code) and symbol(!,”,#,_,etc). ASCII is not used full 256 character of 8bits, is used 128 character of 7 bits
10hex
16hex
ASCII
10hex
16hex
ASCII
10hex
16hex
ASCII
10
0A
[LF]
46
2E
.
62
3E
>
13
0D
[CR]
47
2F
/
63
3F
?
32
20
[Space]
48
30
0
64
40
@
33
21
!
49
31
1
65
41
A
34
22
“
50
32
2
66
42
B
35
23
#
51
33
3
67
43
C
36
24
$
52
34
4
68
44
D
37
25
%
53
35
5
69
45
E
38
26
&
54
36
6
70
46
F
39
27
‘
55
37
7
71
47
G
40
28
(
56
38
8
72
48
H
41
29
)
57
39
9
73
49
I
42
2A
*
58
3A
:
74
4A
J
43
2B
+
59
3B
;
75
4B
K
44
2C
,
60
3C
<
76
4C
L
45
2D
–
61
3D
=
77
4D
M
10hex
16hex
ASCII
10hex
16hex
ASCII
10hex
16hex
ASCII
78
4E
N
94
5E
^
110
6E
n
79
4F
O
95
5F
_
111
6F
o
80
50
P
96
60
`
112
70
p
81
51
Q
97
61
a
113
71
q
82
52
R
98
62
b
114
72
r
83
53
S
99
63
c
115
73
s
84
54
T
100
64
d
116
74
t
85
55
U
101
65
e
117
75
u
86
56
V
102
66
f
118
76
v
87
57
W
103
67
g
119
77
w
88
58
X
104
68
h
120
78
x
89
59
Y
105
69
i
121
79
y
90
5A
Z
106
6A
j
122
7A
z
91
5B
[
107
6B
k
123
7B
{
92
5C
\
108
6C
l
124
7C
|
93
5D
]
109
6D
m
125
7D
}
126
7E
~
ISO-8859-2
ISO8859 stands for 1 byte, 8-bit character encodings, there are 15 parts, such as ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859,.. . ISO-8859-2 Supports those Central and Eastern European languages. Its use the Latin alphabet, including Bosnian, Polish, Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Serbian, and Hungarian.
