Character Sets & Drupal
When you get down to it, computers both store data and execute operations on that data using a simple language: 1’s and 0’s. If you’re doing simple arithmetic or logic, this can be simple, but a higher level of abstraction is needed to efficiently accomplish things like text manipulation. Character sets do this by assigning a value to each character so that users can see an “A” rather than a number or a series of 1’s and 0’s.