Understanding Encoding Systems

What does ASCII stand for?

• American Standard Code for Internet Interchange

• American Standard Code for Information Interchange

• American Standard Code for Information Interception

• American Standard Code for Information Integration

Which encoding system is primarily used for Traditional Chinese characters?

• ASCII

• ISO-8859-1

• UTF-8

• Big5

What is the main advantage of using Unicode?

• Unicode limits the number of characters to 256.

• Unicode is primarily for formatting text in HTML.

• Unicode is only used for English characters.

• The main advantage of using Unicode is its ability to support a vast range of characters from multiple languages and scripts, ensuring text is displayed correctly worldwide.

How many bits are used in a standard ASCII character?

• 6 bits

• 10 bits

• 7 bits

• 5 bits

What is the maximum number of bytes that a single character can occupy in UTF-8 encoding?

• 1

• 2

• 4

• 8

Which encoding system is commonly used in mainland China?

• GB2312

• ISO-8859-1

• ASCII

• UTF-8

What does the 'Big5' encoding support?

• Korean Hangul

• Simplified Chinese characters

• Japanese Kanji

• Traditional Chinese characters

How does UTF-16 differ from UTF-8?

• UTF-8 uses a fixed 4 bytes per character, while UTF-16 uses 1 to 3 bytes.

• UTF-8 can only represent ASCII characters, while UTF-16 can represent all Unicode characters.

• UTF-16 is more widely used than UTF-8 for web content.

• UTF-8 uses 1 to 4 bytes per character, while UTF-16 uses 2 or 4 bytes.

What is the purpose of character encoding?

• To enhance the visual appearance of text on screens.

• To create new programming languages.

• To store images in a text format.

• The purpose of character encoding is to convert characters into a format that can be easily stored and transmitted by computers.

Which encoding system can represent characters from multiple languages?

• Unicode

• ASCII

• GB

• ISO-8859-1