What is Unicode and ASCII?

Unicode is the universal character encoding used to process, store and facilitate the interchange of text data in any language while ASCII is used for the representation of text such as symbols, letters, digits, etc. in computers.

What is the difference between ASCII and Unicode character set?

The main difference between Unicode and ASCII is that Unicode is the IT standard that represents letters of English, Arabic, Greek (and many more languages), mathematical symbols, historical scripts, etc whereas ASCII is limited to few characters such as uppercase and lowercase letters, symbols, and digits(0-9).

What are ASCII and non ASCII characters?

Non-ASCII characters are those that are not encoded in ASCII, such as Unicode, EBCDIC, etc. ASCII is limited to 128 characters and was initially developed for the English language.

What is the difference between Unicode and ASCII?

UTF-8: In this type,8 bits are used for each character.

  • UTF – 16: 16 bits are used to represent each character in this type of Unicode.
  • TF -32: 32 bits are used for the representation of each character in this type.

    • How do you find the ASCII value of a character?

    Control Characters (0–31&127): Control characters are not printable characters.

  • Special Characters (32–47/58–64/91–96/123–126): Special characters include all printable characters that are neither letters nor numbers.
  • Numbers (30–39): These numbers include the ten Arabic numerals from 0-9.

    • How to type ASCII characters?

    Go to Home tab,in the Font group,change the font to Wingdings (or other font set).

  • Press and hold the ALT key and type the character code on the numeric keypad.
  • Change the font back to your previous font after inserting the symbol.

    • What are special ASCII characters?

    ASCII Extended Characters : ASCII code 128 = Ç ( Majuscule C-cedilla ) ASCII code 129 = ü ( letter u with umlaut or diaeresis , u-umlaut ) ASCII code 130 = é ( letter e with acute accent or e-acute ) ASCII code 131 = â ( letter a with circumflex accent or a-circumflex ) ASCII code 132 = ä ( letter a with umlaut or diaeresis , a-umlaut ) ASCII code 133 = à ( letter a with grave accent )

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