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2.6 characters (Ext. ASCII (8 bits, 256 values, other languages need other…
2.6 characters
Ext. ASCII
8 bits
256 values
other languages need other characers
0 - 128 same as standard ASCII
UNICODE
Allows us to represent every character from every language arounf the world
2 bytes
specific code pages per language
code pages contain the binary codes for characters used in a specific language
Ext. UNICODE
21 bits per character
allows us to represent ancient characters as well
e.g. hieroglyphics
because there was spare binary codes, emojis were used in there place
character sets
there are diferent ASCII sets based on general location and lamguage preferences
different character sets use the same code for different characters
examples include Latin 1 western European
Latin 2 central European
ASCII
used for English language
7 bits
128 characters