Character encoding

Character encoding - system using a prescribed set of digital values to represent textual characters. Article “Character encoding” in English Wikipedia has 50.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 34 references and 23 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.64 points.

This article has the best quality in Korean Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2026 the article “Character encoding” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Character encoding”, its content was written by 388 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1405 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1235 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6334 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #329 in June 2001
• Global: #516 in June 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #16327 in March 2010
• Global: #12454 in April 2008

There are 42 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Korean (ko) 문자 인코딩		50.7164
2	English (en) Character encoding		50.0805
3	French (fr) Codage des caractères		41.6967
4	Chinese (zh) 字符编码		34.2078
5	Vietnamese (vi) Biên mã kí tự		33.3749
6	Catalan (ca) Codificació de caràcters		28.6991
7	Czech (cs) Kódování znaků		26.2188
8	Japanese (ja) 文字コード		26.1319
9	Swedish (sv) Teckenkod		24.4079
10	Turkish (tr) Karakter kodlaması		23.0522

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Character encoding" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Character encoding		6 097 894
2	Japanese (ja) 文字コード		2 321 343
3	Spanish (es) Codificación de caracteres		1 227 289
4	Russian (ru) Набор символов		568 594
5	French (fr) Codage des caractères		561 170
6	German (de) Zeichenkodierung		517 186
7	Chinese (zh) 字符编码		427 300
8	Italian (it) Codifica di caratteri		264 914
9	Czech (cs) Kódování znaků		217 802
10	Korean (ko) 문자 인코딩		194 178

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Character encoding" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Character encoding		8 654
2	Japanese (ja) 文字コード		1 706
3	Chinese (zh) 字符编码		866
4	French (fr) Codage des caractères		557
5	Russian (ru) Набор символов		555
6	German (de) Zeichenkodierung		543
7	Spanish (es) Codificación de caracteres		344
8	Czech (cs) Kódování znaků		179
9	Italian (it) Codifica di caratteri		174
10	Korean (ko) 문자 인코딩		160

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Character encoding" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Character encoding		388
2	French (fr) Codage des caractères		111
3	Spanish (es) Codificación de caracteres		89
4	German (de) Zeichenkodierung		85
5	Japanese (ja) 文字コード		85
6	Chinese (zh) 字符编码		80
7	Russian (ru) Набор символов		53
8	Italian (it) Codifica di caratteri		51
9	Hungarian (hu) Karakterkódolás		34
10	Czech (cs) Kódování znaků		33

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Character encoding" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Character encoding		5
2	Azerbaijani (az) Kodlaşdırma		1
3	Czech (cs) Kódování znaků		1
4	German (de) Zeichenkodierung		1
5	Korean (ko) 문자 인코딩		1
6	Arabic (ar) ترميز المحارف		0
7	Belarusian (be) Набор сімвалаў		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Символно кодиране		0
9	Catalan (ca) Codificació de caràcters		0
10	Danish (da) Tegnsæt		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Character encoding" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Character encoding		1 235
2	French (fr) Codage des caractères		1 015
3	Japanese (ja) 文字コード		545
4	Russian (ru) Набор символов		438
5	Chinese (zh) 字符编码		402
6	Korean (ko) 문자 인코딩		370
7	Dutch (nl) Tekencodering		252
8	Ukrainian (uk) Кодування символів		203
9	German (de) Zeichenkodierung		200
10	Spanish (es) Codificación de caracteres		182

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic ترميز المحارف
az	Azerbaijani Kodlaşdırma
be	Belarusian Набор сімвалаў
bg	Bulgarian Символно кодиране
ca	Catalan Codificació de caràcters
cs	Czech Kódování znaků
da	Danish Tegnsæt
de	German Zeichenkodierung
el	Greek Κωδικοποίηση χαρακτήρων
en	English Character encoding
eo	Esperanto Kodoprezento
es	Spanish Codificación de caracteres
et	Estonian Kodeerimine
eu	Basque Karaktereen kodeketa
fa	Persian کدبندی نویسه
fi	Finnish Merkistö
fr	French Codage des caractères
gl	Galician Codificación de caracteres
he	Hebrew קידוד תווים
hi	Hindi अक्षर कोडन
hu	Hungarian Karakterkódolás
hy	Armenian Կոդավորում
id	Indonesian Pengodean karakter
it	Italian Codifica di caratteri
ja	Japanese 文字コード
kk	Kazakh Бедербелгілік жинақ
ko	Korean 문자 인코딩
nl	Dutch Tekencodering
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Teiknsett
no	Norwegian Tegnsett
pl	Polish Zestaw znaków
pt	Portuguese Codificação de caracteres
ru	Russian Набор символов
simple	Simple English Character encoding
sv	Swedish Teckenkod
th	Thai รหัสอักขระ
tr	Turkish Karakter kodlaması
uk	Ukrainian Кодування символів
ur	Urdu حرفی رمز بندی
vi	Vietnamese Biên mã kí tự
zh	Chinese 字符编码
zhminnan	Min Nan Pian-bé

Best Rank

English: #16327 03.2010

Global: #12454 04.2008

Best Rank

English: #329 06.2001

Global: #516 06.2001

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