Character Sets and Binary Code

A character set is a collection of characters that can be recognized and stored by a computer system.

The two main character sets mentioned in the text are ASCII and Unicode.

In ASCII, characters are stored as 7-bit binary codes.

<p>The maximum number of characters that can be stored in ASCII is 128.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Unicode uses multiple bytes for each character, allowing it to store over 65,000 characters.</p> Signup and view all the answers