{"id":2897,"date":"2018-08-31T13:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/?p=2897"},"modified":"2018-08-31T13:00:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T13:00:04","slug":"updated-article-character-encodings-essential-concepts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/2018\/08\/31\/updated-article-character-encodings-essential-concepts\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated article: Character encodings: Essential concepts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article introduces a number of basic concepts needed to understand other articles that deal with characters and character encodings.<\/p>\n<p>The article has been updated with explanations of the terms &#8216;user-perceived character&#8217;, &#8216;grapheme-cluster&#8217;, &#8216;typographic character unit&#8217;, and &#8216;glyph&#8217;, and a warning about the vague use of the term &#8216;character&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article <a style=\"font-size: 120%\" href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/International\/articles\/definitions-characters\/\">Character encodings: Essential concepts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article introduces a number of basic concepts needed to understand other articles that deal with characters and character encodings. The article has been updated with explanations of the terms &#8216;user-perceived character&#8217;, &#8216;grapheme-cluster&#8217;, &#8216;typographic character unit&#8217;, and &#8216;glyph&#8217;, and a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/2018\/08\/31\/updated-article-character-encodings-essential-concepts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205,203,209,206,204,208,202,210,217,207,11,5,16,19],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-2897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alreq","category-clreq","category-elreq","category-hlreq","category-ilreq","category-jlreq","category-klreq","category-mlreq","category-sealreq","category-tlreq","category-update","category-w3cwebdesign","category-w3cwebofdevices","category-w3cwebuseragents","tag-article-definitions-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2899,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions\/2899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}