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Ascii Vs Unicode Tekky

ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange and can represent 104 characters, while Unicode stands for Universal Character Encoding and can represent 156,063 characters. The document provides binary conversions for the word 'HELLO' in ASCII and explains that ASCII is a subset of Unicode, which includes characters from all major languages, numbers, symbols, and emojis. Organizations may prefer Unicode for its ability to facilitate communication in multiple languages across global branches.

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Ascii Vs Unicode Tekky

ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange and can represent 104 characters, while Unicode stands for Universal Character Encoding and can represent 156,063 characters. The document provides binary conversions for the word 'HELLO' in ASCII and explains that ASCII is a subset of Unicode, which includes characters from all major languages, numbers, symbols, and emojis. Organizations may prefer Unicode for its ability to facilitate communication in multiple languages across global branches.

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ASCII vs Unicode

Activity 1:
1. What does ASCII stand for?
American standard code for information interchange

2. What does Unicode stand for?


Universal character encoding

3. How many characters can ASCII represent? How about Unicode?


104 – Ascii
156,063 - Unicode

Activity 2:
1. In binary, convert the word “HELLO” in ASCII codes. Use an ASCII table.
‘01001000’, ‘01000101’, ‘01001100’, ‘01001100’, ‘01001111’

2. Convert the ASCII codes ‘01001000’, ‘01100101’, ‘01101100’, ‘01101100’, ‘01101111’


back into English characters.

Hello

Activity 3:
Explain the key differences between ASCII and Unicode. Why might an organisation choose
to use Unicode over ASCII? (5 Marks)

Ascii is a subset of Unicode that only includes characters included the English language,
Unicode includes all major languages in the world as well as numbers, symbols and emojis.
An organisation with multiple overseas branches may prefer to use Unicode over ascii as it
allows for communication in multiple languages

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