Early binary repertoires include Bacon's cipher, Braille, International maritime signal flags, and the 4-digit encoding of Chinese characters for a Chinese telegraph code (Hans Schjellerup, 1869).
It is possible to encode a word, since a word is constructed by symbols, and encode the data by using a tree.
SpongeBob SquarePants (character) | Jerry Seinfeld (character) | Xuanzang (fictional character) | Sonic the Hedgehog (character) | Player character | Forrest Gump (character) | Run-length encoding | player character | Noddy (character) | Macbeth (character) | Huckleberry Finn (character) | Dolly Varden (character) | Tintin (character) | Thousand Character Classic | Terminator (character) | Specific Area Message Encoding | Rocky Balboa (character) | Prince Caspian (character) | Ophelia (character) | Non-player character | Nikita (Nikita character) | moral character | Mooncat (Childrens TV character) | L'Autre (character) | John Shuttleworth (character) | Donkey Kong (character) | Crash Bandicoot (character) | Cinderella (Disney character) | Character class | Athos (fictional character) |
IBM introduced the concept of systematically assigning a small, but globally unique, 16 bit number to each character encoding that a computer system or collection of computer systems might encounter.
The HP roman 8 charset is a single byte character encoding that is mainly used on HP-UX and some Hewlett-Packard printers.
InDesign supports Unicode character encoding and there is a special Middle East version supporting complex text layout for Arabic and Hebrew types of complex script.
When, early in the history of personal computers, users didn't find their character encoding requirements met, private or local code pages were created using Terminate and Stay Resident utilities or by re-programming BIOS EPROMs.
For quoting mensural notation symbols in inline text, a number of characters have been included in the character encoding standard Unicode, in the "musical symbols" block.
IBM iSeries systems designate code page CCSID 13488 for UCS-2 character encoding, CCSID 1200 for UTF-16 encoding, and CCSID 1208 for UTF-8 encoding.