Characters Flashcards

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Character Sets

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Collections of characters that a computer recognises from their binary representation/equivalent

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What happens when you press a button on your keyboard?

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Sends a binary signal to the computer telling it which key you pressed.
The computer uses the character set to translate the binary code to a particular character

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ASCII

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a character set
7 - bit binary code == total of 128 different characters

The code for numbers and letters (uppercase + lowercase) is ordered with symbols scattered around

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Unicode

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Uses multiple bytes
covers all major languages
The first 128 codes in unicode are the same as ASCII

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