Encode and Decode Text

Question 1

1. What is character encoding?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

a system in computer programming that pairs a character in a language set with a sequence of binary digits

Question 2

2. What does ASCII stand for?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

Question 3

1. In the 1980s, different encoding systems from computer makers led to the arrival of 8-bit personal computersX bytes being able to hold numeric values from 0 to 255✔ encoding errors when exchanging data between machinesdevelopers assigning accented characters to bytes 0 to 255.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

✔ encoding errors when exchanging data between machines

Question 4

2. In response to the problems with different encoding systems, developers represented all of the world's languages and scripts in one code pointrendered characters according to each application's programming✔ unified the various encoding systems into one universal character setX declared UTF-8 to be the dominant encoding system.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

✔ unified the various encoding systems into one universal character set

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