Prefix Code - Prefix Codes in Use Today

Prefix Codes in Use Today

Examples of prefix codes include:

  • variable-length Huffman codes
  • country calling codes
  • the country and publisher parts of ISBNs
  • the Secondary Synchronization Codes used in the UMTS W-CDMA 3G Wireless Standard
  • VCR Plus+ codes
  • the UTF-8 system for encoding Unicode characters, which is both a prefix-free code and a Self-synchronizing code
  • the instruction sets (machine language) of most computer microarchitectures

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