5.Numeral Systems - Programming in GO

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5. numeral systems - Programming in GO

UTF 8 = Unicode Transformation Format – 8-bit

UTF8 is a character encoding where is assigns 1,112,064 characters a binary number that is from 1 byte (8 bits) to 4 bytes (32 bits) long.

Why is it necessary? Well, our computers use binary to store data. So inside a computer information is a sequence of 0’s and 1’s. When you are writing a text file on your computer the computer needs to store that in binary code (in 0’s and 1’s). But what would the character ‘a’ represent in binary? Short answer is whatever you want it to be. That is why we have UTF8 (and ASCII before it), it provides a standard that says the letter ‘a’ will take the value of 01100010 in binary. It allows us to say this file is stored with the UTF8 encoding, so the binary code must be interpreted with that in mind. 4.Numeral systems - UTF-8

       package main

       import "fmt"

      func main() {
	    for i := 60; i < 122; i++ {
	   	fmt.Printf("%d \t %b \t %x \t %q \n", i, i, i, i)
	    }
     }

output:

60 	 111100 	 3c 	 '<' 
61 	 111101 	 3d 	 '=' 
62 	 111110 	 3e 	 '>' 
63 	 111111 	 3f 	 '?' 
64 	 1000000 	 40 	 '@' 
65 	 1000001 	 41 	 'A' 
66 	 1000010 	 42 	 'B' 
67 	 1000011 	 43 	 'C' 
68 	 1000100 	 44 	 'D' 
69 	 1000101 	 45 	 'E' 
70 	 1000110 	 46 	 'F' 
71 	 1000111 	 47 	 'G' 
72 	 1001000 	 48 	 'H' 
73 	 1001001 	 49 	 'I' 
74 	 1001010 	 4a 	 'J' 
75 	 1001011 	 4b 	 'K' 
76 	 1001100 	 4c 	 'L' 
77 	 1001101 	 4d 	 'M' 
78 	 1001110 	 4e 	 'N' 
79 	 1001111 	 4f 	 'O' 
80 	 1010000 	 50 	 'P' 
81 	 1010001 	 51 	 'Q' 
82 	 1010010 	 52 	 'R' 
83 	 1010011 	 53 	 'S' 
84 	 1010100 	 54 	 'T' 
85 	 1010101 	 55 	 'U' 
86 	 1010110 	 56 	 'V' 
87 	 1010111 	 57 	 'W' 
88 	 1011000 	 58 	 'X' 
89 	 1011001 	 59 	 'Y' 
90 	 1011010 	 5a 	 'Z' 
91 	 1011011 	 5b 	 '[' 
92 	 1011100 	 5c 	 '\\' 
93 	 1011101 	 5d 	 ']' 
94 	 1011110 	 5e 	 '^' 
95 	 1011111 	 5f 	 '_' 
96 	 1100000 	 60 	 '`' 
97 	 1100001 	 61 	 'a' 
98 	 1100010 	 62 	 'b' 
99 	   1100011 	 63 	 'c' 
100 	 1100100 	 64 	 'd' 
101 	 1100101 	 65 	 'e' 
102 	 1100110 	 66 	 'f' 
103 	 1100111 	 67 	 'g' 
104 	 1101000 	 68 	 'h' 
105 	 1101001 	 69 	 'i' 
106 	 1101010 	 6a 	 'j' 
107 	 1101011 	 6b 	 'k' 
108 	 1101100 	 6c 	 'l' 
109 	 1101101 	 6d 	 'm' 
110 	 1101110 	 6e 	 'n' 
111 	 1101111 	 6f 	 'o' 
112 	 1110000 	 70 	 'p' 
113 	 1110001 	 71 	 'q' 
114 	 1110010 	 72 	 'r' 
115 	 1110011 	 73 	 's' 
116 	 1110100 	 74 	 't' 
117 	 1110101 	 75 	 'u' 
118 	 1110110 	 76 	 'v' 
119 	 1110111 	 77 	 'w' 
120 	 1111000 	 78 	 'x' 
121 	 1111001 	 79 	 'y'

as we seen decimal,binary and hexadecimal programs in Go , in this above UTF-8 program annotaition %q is used for UTF-8 character in coding. Note:-UTF-8 has been the dominant character encoding for the World Wide Web since 2009, and as of March 2018 accounts for 91.0% of all Web pages. The Internet Mail Consortium(IMC) recommended that all e-mail programs be able to display and create mail using UTF-8, and the W3C recommends UTF-8 as the default encoding in XML and HTML