What is a character set?

What is a character set?

Character set is a group of unique symbols used for display and printing

 

What is ASCII? What do the initials stand for?

ASCII uses 8 bit. In an ASCII file, each alphabetic, numeric, or special character is represented with a 7-bit binary number.

American Standard Code For Information Interchange.

Explain how ASCII is used to represent text in a computer system.

ASCII is a code for representing English characters as numbers, with each letter assigned a number from 0 to 127.

ASCII was based on an earlier code from 1963. What was this?

ASCII developed from telegraphic codes. Its first commercial use was as a seven-bit teleprinter code promoted by Bell data services.

What is UNICODE?

Unicode uses 16 bits, which means that it can represent more than 65,000 unique characters.

Explain the difference between the character sets of Unicode and ASCII

Unicode is a 16 bit and ASCII is 8 bit, therefore more symbols can be shown using Unicode.