Representation of Data- Character Flashcards
1
Q
ASCII
A
American Standard Code for Information Interchange – a
7-bit character code.
2
Q
Character set
A
The complete collection of characters that can be
encoded in a particular coding system.
3
Q
Unicode
A
At least 16-bit code. Defines what characters it encodes
and then uses a suitable number of octets to store them
as a number.