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ENCODING SCHEME & NUMBER SYSTEM

Table of Content
Difference between Unicode and ASCII
The differences between them are as follows:

Unicode Coding Scheme ASCII Coding Scheme

 It uses variable bit


encoding according to  It uses 7-bit encoding. As
the requirement. For of now, the extended form
example, UTF-8, UTF- uses 8-bit encoding.
16, UTF-32

 It is not a standard all over


 It is a standard form.
the world.

 It has only limited


 People use this scheme
characters hence, it cannot
all over the world.
be used all over the world.

 The Unicode characters


themselves involve all
the characters of the  It has its equivalent coding
ASCII encoding. characters in the Unicode.
Therefore we can say that
it is a superset for it.

 It has more than 128,000  In contrast, it has only 256


characters. characters.
Difference Between Unicode and ISCII
The differences between them are as follows:

Unicode Coding Scheme ISCII Coding Scheme

 It uses variable bit


encoding according to
 It uses 8-bit encoding and is
the requirement. For
an extension of ASCII.
example, UTF-8, UTF-
16, UTF-32

 It is not a standard all over


 A Unicode coding
the world. Moreover, it
scheme is a standard
covers only some Indian
form.
languages.

 It covers only limited


 People use this scheme Indian languages hence, it
all over the world. cannot be used all over the
world.

 The characters
themselves involve all
the characters of the  It has its equivalent coding
ISCII encoding. characters in the Unicode.
Therefore we can say
that it is a superset for it.

 It has more than  In contrast, it has only 256


128,000 characters. characters.

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