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objective-cbitletters

How to present letter as a bitmap?

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 = ??
[ = ??

Solution

  • 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