Character sets, encodings, and Unicode

I have written a lengthy page explaining about different character sets and encodings. It can be found here:

http://www.gammon.com.au/unicode/


Covered are things like UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, single-byte character sets (SBCS), multi-byte character sets (MBCS) and wide character sets.

There are also some code charts to illustrate the differences between the various character sets.