3.3 ASCII and Unicode

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What's a character set?
a system for converting characters into binary
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How many characters can be represented with the 7-bit ASCII character set?
128
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What's extended ASCII?
a character set that uses 8 bits, giving an additional 128 characters which can be used for characters in other languages
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What's unicode?
the new standard for representing the characters of all the languages of the world
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How many bits does unicode use?
between 8,16 or 32 bits
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What can represent more unique characters - unicode or ASCII?
unicode
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It can be said that ASCII is a subset of the Unicode encoding scheme. But to learn more I need to take a class on them for best practical application. for example making an entertainment product like cookie clicker.

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