6. Character sets

Question 1

Extended ASCII

Answer 1

8-bit character set with 256 characters
(Extra symbols)

Question 2

ASCII

Answer 2

7-bit character set with 128 characters (A-Z, a-z, 0-9, basic keys, space, enter & special characters)

Question 3

Unicode

Answer 3

24-bit character set with over 16 million characters (Other languages, emojis)

Question 4

Character sets

Answer 4

Set of characters recognised by a computer. Each character is represented in binary.