DATA REPRESENTATION AND NUMBER SYSTEMS
ASCII AND UNICODE CHARACTER ENCODING
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Question
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Unicode uses the same amount of memory to store a character as ASCII.
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Unicode uses a 16-bit encoding scheme, which allows it to represent over 65, 000 different characters. This is significantly more than the 128 characters that can be represented using ASCII.
Detailed explanation-2: -Many computer systems instead use Unicode, which has millions of code points, but the first 128 of these are the same as the ASCII set.
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