What is the main purpose of ASCII?

ASCII vs. Unicode Quiz

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Computers
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8th Grade
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Hard
Vasantha Ponnen
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10 questions
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
How many characters does Unicode support?
256
149,000
64,000
128
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the encoding mechanism used by ASCII?
Single-byte character encoding
Variable-length encoding
Fixed-length encoding
Double-byte character encoding
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
How many bits does ASCII use to represent each character?
4 bits
6 bits
7 bits
8 bits
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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
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