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Thomas King

ASCII

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Flashcards on ASCII, created by Thomas Pires on 14/03/2018.

Flashcards by Thomas Pires, updated more than 1 year ago

	Created by Thomas Pires about 7 years ago

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Question	Answer
what does ASCII stand for?	American Standard Code for Information Interchange
Why do computers use ASCII?	Its allows computers to be compatible with each other.
ASCII	7 bits: 128 characters Only English.
Extended ASCII	8 bits: 256 characters Only English and special characters (é).
Unicode	16 bits: over 65,000 characters any language.
What is a character set?	It is all the characters that are recognized and represented by a computer.
How are characters represented in ASCII?	each character is given a unique code. this code is then converted into binary and stored in a byte.

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