Table 2-2 shows how the ASCII character set is encoded. Row and column headings denote hexadecimal digits. For example, the code value of the character A is 0x41.
As languages evolve to meet the needs of people around the world, new character sets are created to support the languages. Typically, these new character sets support a group of related languages based on the same script.
For example, the ISO 8859 character set series was created to support different European languages. Table 2-3 shows the languages that are supported by the ISO 8859 character sets.