topic: character sets Flashcards

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Q

why is ASCII character set not good enough

A

only 128 characters can be used which is not enough to represent all the characters used in languages around the world like Greek, Arabi etc.

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2
Q

what does UNICODE stand for

A

universal character encoding

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