ISCII Encoding Last Updated : 07 Jul, 2020 Summarize Comments Improve Suggest changes Share Like Article Like Report ISCII is an acronym for Indian Script Code for Information Interchange. ISCII is an encoding scheme that represents various languages that are written and spoken in India. ISCII follows single encoding schema, which allows for easy transliteration between various writing systems. ISCII was introduced in the year 1991 by the Bureau of Indian Standards(BIS). It follows an 8-bit encoding schema and contains about 256 characters. The first 128 characters, that is, from 0-127 are same as that for ASCII. The next characters, that are from 128-255 represent the characters from the Indian scripts. Most of the Indian language characters are taken from the ancient Brahmi script and resemble close to each other due to having similar phonetic structure. Hence, a common character set was possible. Advantages : Majority of languages that are spoken in India are represented in this.Character set is simple and easy to understand. Easy transliteration between languages is possible. Disadvantages : We need a special keyboard which contains ISCII character keys. As the Unicode was invented later, and with Unicode having the characters of ISCII, ISCII became obsolete. Supported Languages : Devanagari Punjabi Gujarati Oriya Bengali Assamese Telugu Kannada Malayalam Tamil Comment More infoAdvertise with us Next Article ISCII Encoding C chinmay_bhide Follow Improve Article Tags : Computer Networks Similar Reads Encoding in BeautifulSoup The character encoding plays a major role in the interpretation of the content of an HTML and XML document. A document does not only contain English characters but also non-English characters like Hebrew, Latin, Greek and much more. To let the parser know, which encoding method should be used, the d 6 min read HTTP headers | Accept-Encoding The HTTP headers Accepts-Encoding is usually a comparison algorithm of request header. All the HTTP client used to tell the server which encoding or encodings it supports. Then the server will respond in any of the supporting encoding formats. The server selects any one of the proposals, uses it and 2 min read What is Character Encoding System? As we all know, computers do not understand the English alphabet, numbers except 0 and 1, or text symbols. We use encoding to convert these. So, encoding is the method or process of converting a series of characters, i.e, letters, numbers, punctuation, and symbols into a special or unique format for 5 min read HTTP headers | Content-Encoding The HTTP headers Content-encoding is used to compress the media type. It informers the server which encoding the user will supported. It sends the information to the Accept-encoding. The server selects any one of the proposals, uses it and informs the client of its choice with the Content-Encoding r 2 min read HTTP headers | Transfer-Encoding The HTTP Transfer-Encoding is a response-type header that performs as the hop-by-hop header, the hop-by-hop header connection is the single transport-level connection must not be re-transmitted. This header is performing between two nodes (single transport-level connection). If there is multi-node c 2 min read Like