COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

DATA REPRESENTATION AND NUMBER SYSTEMS

ASCII AND UNICODE CHARACTER ENCODING

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The following is true about character sets:
A
Each letter has a unique code
B
Lower and upper case letters share the same codes
C
ASCII is one of the latest character sets to be adopted
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is the most common character encoding format for text data in computers and on the internet. In standard ASCII-encoded data, there are unique values for 128 alphabetic, numeric or special additional characters and control codes.

Detailed explanation-2: -ASCII characters set is one of the most popular character sets used by general computers to display text or numbers on computer screen. It represents uppercase and lower case English alphabets, number, mathematical operators and symbols from number 0–127.

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