P2 T1 L4 - ASCII and UNICODE

Question 1

What is a character code?

1 point

Answer 1

1. A character code is a binary representation of a particular letter, number or special character

Question 2

ASCII stands for …

it’s a _-bit character code where every single bit represents a unique _________

Answer 2

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

7

character

Question 3

Computers can only understand _______, so an ASCII code is the numerical representation of a character such as ‘a’ or ‘@’ etc.

The first __ characters in the ASCII-table are unprintable _______ ______.

Answer 3

numbers

32

control codes

Question 4

Unicode is similar to ASCII but with ____ characters, enough for every character in every language

Answer 4

more

Question 5

(Unicode)
The standard is maintained by the Unicode Consortium, there are _ bit, __ bit and __ bit versions

Uses between _ and __ bits per character

Answer 5

8 16 32

8 32