Variable Length Binary Codes
- UTF-8 - Encodes characters in a way that is mostly compatible with ASCII but can also encode the full repertoire of Unicode characters with sequences of up to 4 8-bit bytes
- UTF-16 - Extends UCS-2 to cover the whole of Unicode with sequences of 1 or 2 16-bit elements
- GB 18030 - A full-Unicode variable length code designed for compatibility with older Chinese multibyte encodings
- Huffman coding - A technique for expressing more common characters using shorter bit strings than are used for less common characters
Data compression systems such as Lempel–Ziv–Welch are able to compress arbitrary binary data. They are therefore not binary codes themselves, but may be applied to binary codes to reduce storage needs
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