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Data - Character Sets and Computer languages Flashcards

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What is ASCII?

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American Standard Code for Information Interchange: a 7‐bit character set used by PCs.

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What is binary?

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Base 2 number system, used by computers, uses the digits 1 & 0 only, also known as OFF or ON, and is the number system used by computers to store data and instructions.

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What is Unicode/UTF-8?

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UCS Transformation Format is a universal character set consisting of more than 1920 characters which characters from all languages.

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Why is Unicode better than ASCII?

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Because UTF-8 has characters from all languages and ASCII only has English characters.

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