Data that are processed in a computer system include numeric, character, pointer and logical data. Character data, in particular, are data that are represented with the aid of coded character sets (CCSs). This is the focus of this monograph. Although, there have been a sizeable number of published works on such present-day CCSs as ASCII, EBCDIC and Unicode, only few literature materials provide a unified discourse on CCSs as data representation standards. This has been the trend since the publication of C.E. Mackenzie's classic book, 'Coded Character Sets, History and Development' (The...