Formats

Unicode is the standard for defining computer characters. It removes the limitations and conflicts of traditional encodings. With 137,929 characters, it has enough capacity to completely cover the world’s current and historic languages. It also contains symbols and special characters like emojis. Implementations include UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32. Individual characters are defined as code points instead of glyphs. This

ISO-8859 encoding is an extension to to the basic ASCII character set to accommodate non-English languages. It dates back to 1983 and was last updated in 1998. ASCII used the first 7 bits of the 8-bit octet (128 characters). The remaining bit was used to add extended, language specific characters. Usage of the extra bit

Enhanced Metafile (EMF) is one of two metafile formats supported in Microsoft Windows. Metafiles are the native vector format for Microsoft Office and other Windows applications. They are also the core graphics display format of the Windows operating system. WMF is a 16-bit version found in 16-bit and 32-bit Windows platforms. EMF is an enhanced

Windows Metafiles (WMF) and Enhanced Metafiles (EMF) are the core display formats of the Windows operating system. They are also the native graphics formats for Microsoft Office applications. WMF is still in wide-use today across 16-bit and 32-bit Windows platforms. EMF is an enhanced 32-bit format update. When you copy a drawing. Windows stores it as a metafile,

TIFF traces its origins to the 1980 where it was proposed as a standard for the emerging desktop scanner market. Originally, it was a simple format and could only understand black & white. Now, it is a robust format which handles high color, greyscale and large files like a breeze. Today, TIFF is a popular

The BMP format is the native image format for the Microsoft Windows operating system. Historically it was an important format in productivity and publishing applications but has been displaced by more compact, efficient and portable formats such as JPEG, PNG and TIFF. BMP is still used in some applications. BMP files are high quality but

The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is a raster output format. Although still widely used for animations, it’s been replaced by PNG for static images. It’s a good format for graphics with sharp borders and distinct color transitions It’s used for logos, line-art and other images with few colors. Compact with fast load times GIF also