Standardised Character Sets (3 marks)
Describe three advantages of using standardised character sets in digital storage.
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Unicode and International Software Development (2 marks)
Explain why Unicode is necessary for international software development.
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The Difference between Unicode and ASCII (2 marks)
Describe the difference between Unicode and ASCII.
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Why replace ASCII? (3 marks)
Why was 7-bit ASCII replaced by extended ASCII and Unicode?
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The ASCII Character Set (2 marks)
Describe how the ASCII encoding scheme works.
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What does ASCII stand for? (1 mark)
Explain what ASCII stands for.
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Binary Representation of Characters (2 marks)
Describe how text characters are represented in binary form in a computer system.
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Advantages of Unicode over ASCII (4 marks)
Describe two advantages of using Unicode over ASCII for character encoding.
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Character Set Definition (2 marks)
Define the term ‘character set’ and explain the purpose of Unicode as a character encoding method.
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