COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

DATA REPRESENTATION AND NUMBER SYSTEMS

ASCII AND UNICODE CHARACTER ENCODING

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
ASCII is a character set that is saved in ____ form
A
Binary
B
ASCII
C
Data Set
D
Characters
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The standard ASCII character set includes binary values from 0 (000 0000) through 127 (111 1111). Table 2. ASCII characters include the characters a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and a selection of punctuation marks.

Detailed explanation-2: -The ASCII Character Set It was designed in the early 60’s, as a standard character set for computers and electronic devices. ASCII is a 7-bit character set containing 128 characters. It contains the numbers from 0-9, the upper and lower case English letters from A to Z, and some special characters.

Detailed explanation-3: -ASCII is a code set containing 128 code points (0x00 through 0x7F). The ASCII character set contains control characters, punctuation marks, digits, and the uppercase and lowercase English alphabet. Several 8-bit code sets incorporate ASCII as a proper subset.

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