Like any application, DI needs to know which "codepage" to use when processing data. Codepages are character encoding tables. Codepages are necessary because ultimately, all software operates with sequences of bytes, not the actual letters or numbers that you see on a computer screen. Operating systems and other software applications use codepages to map sequences of bytes to specific characters. Those characters can be single-byte characters such as English or French or multi-byte characters such as Korean or Chinese. Do not assume each language has it's own codepage. Codepages provide a mapping for a specific set of characters, and in the case of codepage MS1252, many languages such as English, French, German, and Swahili all use the same codepage. This is possible because they share many characters such as "a", "b", "c", etc... MS949, on the other hand, only maps to Korean. Some codepages, such as UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32, map to a standard generally known as Unicode. This is very useful because Unicode is the character set which includes almost all known characters in the world today. When processing both multi-byte and single-byte data, a Unicode codepage is recommended, which in the case of DI is equivalent to UTF-8 .
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