ONE 6th FORM Character Sets

ASCII is an encoding system for text. What does ASCII stand for?

• American Standard Code for Information Interchange

• All System Code In Internet

• American Simple Code for Interesting Information

• Alpha Super Code Input Information

How many bits was used to encode the original ASCII character set?

• 7

• 8

• 16

• 4

The Extended ASCII system uses 8 bits per character instead of 7 bits. How many different characters can be represented in 8 bits?

• 1024

• 8

• 128

• 256

UTF-8 is the most common encoding system on the web for Unicode. What does UTF stand for?

• Universal Text Format

• Unicode Transformation Format

• Unicode Text Free

• Use The Force

Upper and lower case letters have a different ASCII code.

• True
• False

What is the maximum number of values that can be represented in 7 bits?

• 127
• 256
• 65,536
• 128

How is Unicode different from ASCII

• Unicode has fewer characters

• Unicode has more characters

• Unicode isn't for letters

• Unicode doesn't have numbers

Unicode can represent emojis

• True

• False

What is the ASCII code for ... A?

• 65

• 56

• 97

• 79

ASCII can represent more characters than Unicode? (4-6)

• True
• False