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ASCII and Unicode
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- 1ASCIIThis stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange
- 2What is a character set?All the characters which are
represented/recognized by a computer - 3How are characters stored on a computer?Each letter is assigned a
unique number this number is then converted/stored to binary - 4how many bits does ASCII use and how many characters is thisASCII uses 7 bits to store all of the characters needed for the English language.
This gives 128 possible characters. - 5extended ASCIIExtended ASCII uses 8 bits. It means it can store 256 characters!
- 6UnicodeUnicode was developed to
account for every language in the world.
It uses 16 bits so has a much
larger character set. (Over 65,000!). - 7UnicodeThere has now been a 32 bit Unicode that has been made this has over 4294967296 characters (this includes emojis!) .
- 8what was Unicode developed forUnicode was developed to enable computers to communicate in variety of languages and using many symbols
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