DATA REPRESENTATION AND NUMBER SYSTEMS
ASCII AND UNICODE CHARACTER ENCODING
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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To allow humans to express alphanumeric characters in a binary table
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To run the Internet
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To simplify computer programming
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None of the above
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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: -Unicode is a universal character set, ie. a standard that defines, in one place, all the characters needed for writing the majority of living languages in use on computers. It aims to be, and to a large extent already is, a superset of all other character sets that have been encoded.
Detailed explanation-3: -Computers work in binary . As a result, all characters, whether they are letters, punctuation or digits, are stored as binary numbers. All of the characters that a computer can use are called a character set .