GCSE J277 - 1.2.4 - Character Sets

What does ASCII stand for?

• Asian Standard Code for Information Interchange
• American Standard Character for Information Interchange
• American Standard Code for Information Interchange
• Unicode

How many bytes are there in one extended ASCII Character?

• 1
• 2
• 4
• 8

How many characters can the standard ASCII table hold?

• 128
• 256
• 127
• 255

How many characters can the extended ASCII table hold?

• 128
• 256
• 127
• 255

What langauge does American Standard Character for Information Interchange translate to?

• America
• English
• Chinese
• Japanese

How many bits does a UNICODE character use?

• 1
• 8
• 16
• 32

Why was UNICODE created?

• ASCII became redundant
• ASCII couldn't hold enough characters

(Roughly) How many characters can UNICODE potentially hold?

• Limitless
• 4 Million
• 4 Billion
• 4 Trillion

A character set is

• The language which is used in a computer system
• Fonts install on the computer
• All possible characters that can be represented
• Fonts used on other computers

How many bits are used in standard ASCII?

• 1
• 7
• 8
• 16