COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

DATA REPRESENTATION AND NUMBER SYSTEMS

ASCII AND UNICODE CHARACTER ENCODING

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
ASCII stands for____
A
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
B
American Scientific Code for Information Interchanging
C
Absolute Standard Codes for Instruction Interchange
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is a standard table of seven-bit designations for digital representation of uppercase and lowercase Roman letters, numbers and special control characters in teletype, computer and word processor systems.

Detailed explanation-2: -ASCII, in full American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a standard data-encoding format for electronic communication between computers.

Detailed explanation-3: -ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a 7-bit character set that contains characters from 0 to 127. The generic term ANSI (American National Standards Institute) is used for 8-bit character sets. These character sets contain the unchanged ASCII character set.

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