Section 4: Character Encoding

Question 1

Q: What are ASCII and Unicode?

Answer 1

A: Standards for encoding characters into binary. ASCII uses 1 byte per character, while Unicode (e.g., UTF-8) supports multiple bytes.

Question 2

Q: How is a null-terminated string stored in memory?

Answer 2

A: Characters are stored sequentially, followed by a null byte (00) to indicate the end of the string.