Characters

Question 1

What is the most common form of character set?

Answer 1

7-bit ASCII

Question 2

What does ASCII stand for?

Answer 2

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

Question 3

How many characters can be represented by a 7-bit character set?

Answer 3

128

2 to the power of 7 characters

Question 4

What is every character represented by in ASCII?

Answer 4

A binary number

Question 5

What does an 8-bit ASCII system always start with?

Answer 5

The first bit always set to 0

Question 6

What is the extended ASCII character set?

Answer 6

An 8-bit set which can represent 256 characters

Question 7

What is a character set?

Answer 7

A defined list of characters recognized by the computer hardware and software

Question 8

How many characters can a 2 byte character set represent?

Answer 8

65,000+ characters (two to the power of 16)

Question 9

What is the most common 2 byte (16 bit) encoding standard?

Answer 9

Unicode

Question 10

What can Unicode handle?

Answer 10

Any language

Question 11

What is UTF-8?

Answer 11

A variable length encoding scheme for Unicode