1.4.1

Question 1

ASCII

Answer 1

A character set used to represent alphanumeric characters or symbols as a set of 8 bits (1 Byte)

Question 2

UNICODE

Answer 2

A character set that maps different binary values to characters. Each character is represented by 1-4 bytes. It supports a very large number of characters

Question 3

Advantages of UNICODE

Answer 3

Can represent more characters
Can include foreign alphabets
Can include emojis

Question 4

Disadvantages of UNICODE

Answer 4

Takes up more store space