ASCII vs. Unicode Quiz

What is the main purpose of ASCII?

• To enable communications electronically and in programming languages like HTML

• To provide a reliable and workable system for worldwide text encoding

• To represent characters from almost all major languages for computer processing

• To support characters from various languages and scripts

How many characters does Unicode support?

• 256

• 149,000

• 64,000

• 128

What is the main limitation of ASCII in terms of language support?

• It can only represent characters in English language

• It can support characters from various languages and scripts

• It can represent characters from almost all major languages for computer processing

• It can only support characters in Latin, Arabic, Cyrillic, and Greek

What is the encoding mechanism used by ASCII?

• Single-byte character encoding

• Variable-length encoding

• Fixed-length encoding

• Double-byte character encoding

What is the primary purpose of Unicode?

• To represent human-readable text for processing by computer systems

• To support the representation of characters from various languages and scripts

• To enable communications electronically and in programming languages like HTML

• To provide a reliable and workable system for worldwide text encoding

How many bits does ASCII use to represent each character?

• 4 bits

• 6 bits

• 7 bits

• 8 bits

What is the main capability of ASCII?

• Supporting characters from various languages and scripts

• Supporting the representation of characters from various languages and scripts

• Enabling communications electronically and in programming languages like HTML

• Representing characters from almost all major languages for computer processing

What is the main feature of Unicode in terms of character representation?

• It supports only English language characters

• It uses up to four bytes to represent each character

• It uses only one byte to represent a single character

• It supports only Latin, Arabic, Cyrillic, and Greek characters

What is the main importance of ASCII in the modern-day computing landscape?

• It allowed developers to create globally applicable interfaces for human-readable text

• It is designed to support the representation of characters from various languages and scripts

• It provided one of the first globally popular character encoding standards to process data

• It is the global standard for character encoding

What is the main importance of Unicode in the modern-day computing landscape?

• It provided one of the first globally popular character encoding standards to process data

• It is designed to support the representation of characters from various languages and scripts

• It allowed developers to create globally applicable interfaces for human-readable text

• It is the global standard for character encoding