Original sentence: A character encoding system consists of a code that pairs a sequence of characters from a given character set (sometimes incorrectly referred to as code page) with something else, such as a sequence of natural numbers, octets or electrical pulses, in order to facilitate the transmission of data (generally numbers and/or text) through telecommunication networks and/or storage of text in computers.Code page — various character set encodings used by Microsoft.The terms character set and character encoding are often used interchangeably, though usually incorrectly
Edited sentence: A character encoding is also known as a code page, a term created and used by IBM, but which is also used by other vendors like Microsoft or SAP.A character encoding system consists of a code that pairs each character from a given character set with something else, such as a natural number, octet or electrical pulse, in order to facilitate the transmission of data (generally numbers and/or text) through telecommunication networks or storage of text in computers.Code page — various character set encodings used by IBM, Microsoft, SAP....In Unicode, the terms character set and character encoding are referred as respectively character repertoire and coded character set (see Unicode Encoding Model below).In computer science, the terms character set and character encoding are often used interchangeably, though usually incorrectly