COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

DATA REPRESENTATION AND NUMBER SYSTEMS

ASCII AND UNICODE CHARACTER ENCODING

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is meant by the term ‘character set’? (Choose two)
A
The characters that are recognised by a computer.
B
Each character is represented by a unique binary number.
C
It only refers to ASCII.
D
It must be represented using 7 bits.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Single-Byte and Double-Byte Character Sets Each character in a single-byte character set is represented by 1 byte in computer. Each character in a double-byte character set is represented by 2 bytes. A single-byte can have 256 (28=256) different codes.

Detailed explanation-2: -The binary character set is the character set for binary strings, which are sequences of bytes. The binary character set has one collation, also named binary .

Detailed explanation-3: -The character set is a combination of English language comprising of the Alphabets and the White spaces and some symbols from the mathematics including the Digits and the Special symbols. C++ character set means the characters and the symbols that are understandable and acceptable by the C++ Program.

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