Character encoding

Character encoding - system using a prescribed set of digital values to represent textual characters. Article "Character encoding" in English Wikipedia has 50.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 34 references and 15 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

In June 2025 the article "Character encoding" was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Character encoding", its content was written by 375 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1393 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1241 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6255 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #290 in June 2001
• Global: #477 in June 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #16239 in March 2010
• Global: #12410 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, 2025 (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	English (en) Character encoding		50.301
2	French (fr) Codage des caractères		41.3721
3	Chinese (zh) 字符编码		34.2784
4	Vietnamese (vi) Biên mã kí tự		33.5045
5	Czech (cs) Kódování znaků		32.3775
6	Catalan (ca) Codificació de caràcters		25.3545
7	Swedish (sv) Teckenkod		25.0441
8	Turkish (tr) Karakter kodlaması		22.948
9	Japanese (ja) 文字コード		22.435
10	Kazakh (kk) Бедербелгілік жинақ		21.4134

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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		5 967 970
2	Japanese (ja) 文字コード		2 292 561
3	Spanish (es) Codificación de caracteres		1 218 788
4	French (fr) Codage des caractères		549 963
5	Russian (ru) Набор символов		534 401
6	German (de) Zeichenkodierung		509 391
7	Chinese (zh) 字符编码		357 323
8	Italian (it) Codifica di caratteri		262 010
9	Czech (cs) Kódování znaků		214 102
10	Korean (ko) 문자 인코딩		192 296

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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 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Character encoding		16 738
2	Japanese (ja) 文字コード		2 845
3	Chinese (zh) 字符编码		1 027
4	Russian (ru) Набор символов		762
5	French (fr) Codage des caractères		689
6	German (de) Zeichenkodierung		594
7	Spanish (es) Codificación de caracteres		470
8	Czech (cs) Kódování znaků		402
9	Korean (ko) 문자 인코딩		260
10	Simple English (simple) Character encoding		243

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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		375
2	French (fr) Codage des caractères		107
3	Spanish (es) Codificación de caracteres		89
4	German (de) Zeichenkodierung		85
5	Japanese (ja) 文字コード		83
6	Chinese (zh) 字符编码		79
7	Russian (ru) Набор символов		53
8	Italian (it) Codifica di caratteri		50
9	Hungarian (hu) Karakterkódolás		34
10	Czech (cs) Kódování znaků		32

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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 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Character encoding		5
2	Czech (cs) Kódování znaků		3
3	Swedish (sv) Teckenkod		2
4	Portuguese (pt) Codificação de caracteres		1
5	Vietnamese (vi) Biên mã kí tự		1
6	Arabic (ar) ترميز المحارف		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Kodlaşdırma		0
8	Belarusian (be) Набор сімвалаў		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Символно кодиране		0
10	Catalan (ca) Codificació de caràcters		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		1 241
2	French (fr) Codage des caractères		993
3	Japanese (ja) 文字コード		525
4	Russian (ru) Набор символов		435
5	Chinese (zh) 字符编码		411
6	Korean (ko) 문자 인코딩		294
7	Dutch (nl) Tekencodering		264
8	Ukrainian (uk) Кодування символів		197
9	German (de) Zeichenkodierung		196
10	Spanish (es) Codificación de caracteres		195

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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: #16239 03.2010

Global: #12410 04.2008

Best Rank

English: #290 06.2001

Global: #477 06.2001

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