Data Representation

ASCII stands for...

• American Standard Code for Information Interchange

• All Standard Complex for Information Interface

• American System for Coding Internal Information

• Alphabet Standard for Computer Internet Items

ASCII worked great for ​ (a)   , but it was bad for ​ (b)   .

• other languages
• English
• hexadecimal numbers
• emojis
• processing

In the U.S., it was common to use the extra ASCII characters for symbols like _________ and math symbols.

• accented letters

• emojis

• calligraphy

• Cyrillic characters

Using the extra ASCII characters to encode other languages' characters worked well until it became more common to ​ (a)   between computers internationally.

• transfer files
• edit data
• send emails
• chat

Which one came first: ASCII or Unicode?

• ASCII

• Unicode

What group created Unicode?

• Unicode Consortium

• Unicode Company

• Unicode Coalition

• Unified Collective

What is the name of the pictures that were assigned to extra Unicode values?

• emoji

• emoticon

• byte

• pictograms

Since a byte has eight bits and ASCII uses only seven, there was space to add new characters. Codes​ (a)   through​ (b)   were adapted to meet the needs of other languages.

• 128
• 255
• 0
• 125
• 500

Unicode has enough space for every character from ____________.

• the English alphabet

• most European languages

• every human language

• every Latin-based language

Web pages often use what kind of Unicode encoding?

• UTF-8

• UTF-16

• UTF-32

• UTF-64