Characters
- Created by: Tomiwaq
- Created on: 14-05-19 19:42
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- Characters
- Binary can be used to represent characters
- Alphanumeric characters are used to make words and strings
- Computers are unable to process characters directly as they only process binary
- Character sets
- Collections of characters that a computer recognises from their binary representation
- The number of bits is based on a character set
- Different character sets have different amounts of characters
- ASCII
- Most commonly-used character set
- It is a 7-bit binary code
- It can represent 128 different characters
- Used mainly with the English language
- Extended ASCII
- Its a character set with 8-bit binary allowing up to 256 characters
- Used for European languages like French and German
- Unicode
- Comes in several different forms and covers every possible character
- 16-bit or 32-bit binary codes
- Covers major languages. Russian, Chinese
- Binary can be used to represent characters
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