Data - Character Sets and Computer languages Flashcards
1
Q
What is ASCII
A
American Standard Code for Information Interchange is a English character set with 128 specified characters including all the letters and numbers with 33 non printable control characters
2
Q
What is binary?
A
Binary is a base 2 8-bit number system represented by the numeric values of 0 or 1, also known as OFF or ON, and is the primary language that computers use to communicate.
3
Q
What is Unicode/UTF-8
A
UCS Transformation Format is a universal character set consisting of more than 1920 characters which characters from all languages.
4
Q
Why is UTF-8 better than ASCII
A
Because UTF-8 has characters from all languages and ASCII only has English characters
