ASCII And Unicode Flashcards
1
Q
What is the fundamental unit of information in the form of a single 1 or 0?
A
A bit
2
Q
What do 1 and 0’s represent?
A
The two electronic states: On and Off
3
Q
What is a byte?
A
A set of eight bits, one byte holds one character of text
4
Q
What is 1024 bytes?
A
Kibibyte
5
Q
What is 1000 bytes?
A
Kilobytes
6
Q
What does ASCII stand for?
A
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
7
Q
How many different characters are there in ASCII?
A
128, starting from 0 going to 127
8
Q
What is Unicode?
A
A multilingual data that formats characters like ASCII but for multiple languages
9
Q
How many buts is United 16 (UTF-16)?
A
16
10
Q
How many buts is United 32 (UTF-32)?
A
32
