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I know how to present number as a bitmap, for instance:

17 = 010001
11 = 001011

This is about numbers, but what about letters? Is there a way to do this? For example:

w = ??
[ = ??

Bartłomiej Semańczyk
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Everything on your computer is represented as a sequence a bits, what you are calling a “bitmap”. So the answer to your question is yes, characters have a binary representation, along with integers, floating-point numbers, machine instructions etc.

Different languages use different binary encodings for characters, Objective-C uses Unicode. See the section Understanding Characters in the NSString documentation.

HTH

CRD
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You might as well jump in at the deep end and visit www.unicode.org.

Letters are complicated. And anyway, representing them as a bitmap is a bit pointless, isn't it?

gnasher729
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