一台大型计算机的即时存取存储器可容纳多达100000个“单词”——字母或数字字符的字符串——随时可用。

The instant access memory of a large computer may hold up to 100,000 "words"—string of alphabetic or numerical characters—ready for instant use.

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处理文本需要某种约定将字符转换为计算机实际可以处理的数字；这些约定叫做字符编码。

Handling text requires that there be some convention for converting characters into the Numbers computers actually handle; these conventions are called character encodings.

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当存储在内存或磁盘或是在网络上传输时，计算机系统必须对Unicode字符进行编码。

Computer systems have to encode Unicode characters when stored in memory or on disk or when transferred over the network.

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