Group-Code Technique for Data Representation

Basically, computers just deal with numbers. They can store letters and other characters by assigning a number for each one. Before Unicode was designed, there were found hundreds of different encoding systems for assigning these numbers. No single encoding could contain sufficient characters: As for example, the European Union alone requires several different encodings to cover all its languages. Even for a solo language like English no solo encoding was adequate for all the punctuation, letters and technical symbols in common use. But Unicode takes 16-bits to represent a character that consumes more memory space and also increases the traffic over transmission. This paper describes the Group-code technique which can represent every character of different languages in 8-bit. Group-code contains all the characters of different languages in different groups. But every group represents a specific languages and member of particular group represents character of that particular group language.