DATA REPRESENTATION AND NUMBER SYSTEMS
ASCII AND UNICODE CHARACTER ENCODING
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Question
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65, 536 different characters
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255 characters
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127 characters
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The first 65, 536 code point positions in the Unicode character set are said to constitute the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) . The BMP includes most of the more commonly used characters. The number 65, 536 is 2 to the power of 16. In other words, the maximum number of bit permutations you can get in two bytes.
Detailed explanation-2: -UTF-16, uses 16 bits to represent each character. This means that it is capable of representing 65, 536 different characters . UTF-32, uses 32 bits to represent each character, meaning it can represent a character set of 4, 294, 967, 296 possible characters, enough for all known languages.
Detailed explanation-3: -The number 65 of Unicode represents the (English) character A. The number 35 of Unicode represents the character #