ASCII & Unicode

ASCII & Unicode

1. ASCII

   • Stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange
   • ASCII is 7 bit of code that allows for 128 characters.

2. Unicode

   • Unicode is avery large character set containing the characters of virtually every written language.
   • Uses 2 bytes per character - 8-32 bits per character
   • It has space for over 1.1 million characters but not all of them have been used up.

3. What is the difference?

   • ASCII uses 7-8 bits per character whereas Unicode uses 8-32 bits.
   • ASCII is only used for the English Language yet, Unicode covers most other languages

4. How do you convert it into binary?

   • You first convert it into it's denary value by using a table, and then you convert the denary value into binary as normal.