GCSE A451 - Character sets

Question 1

State what is meant by the character set of a computer. 1)

Answer 1

• All the characters which are recognised by the computer system

Question 2

Explain the difference between the character sets of Unicode and ASCII. (2)

Answer 2

• Unicode has a much larger character set
• … and can represent many more characters
• Because unicode uses 16 bits…
• … and ASCII uses fewer/7/8 bits