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ASCII is a character encoding standard that represents text in computers using codes. It is the basis for many modern encoding schemes. The Unicode standard maintains a repertoire of over 137,000 characters covering the world's scripts and symbols. It is synchronized with ISO/IEC 10646. Unicode uses variable-length encodings while ASCII originally used 7-bit and later 8-bit encodings, limiting the number of characters it can represent. The main difference is that Unicode supports many scripts globally while ASCII has a smaller character set.

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ASCII

ASCII is a character encoding standard that represents text in computers using codes. It is the basis for many modern encoding schemes. The Unicode standard maintains a repertoire of over 137,000 characters covering the world's scripts and symbols. It is synchronized with ISO/IEC 10646. Unicode uses variable-length encodings while ASCII originally used 7-bit and later 8-bit encodings, limiting the number of characters it can represent. The main difference is that Unicode supports many scripts globally while ASCII has a smaller character set.

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ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard


for electronic communication. ASCII codes represent text in computers,
telecommunications equipment, and other devices. Most modern character-encoding
schemes are based on ASCII, although they support many additional characters.

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) prefers the name US-ASCII for this
character encoding.

UNICODE

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation,


and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. The standard is
maintained by the Unicode Consortium, and as of May 2019 the most recent version,
Unicode 12.1, contains a repertoire of 137,994 characters (consisting of 137,766
graphic characters, 163 format characters and 65 control characters) covering 150
modern and historic scripts, as well as multiple symbol sets and emoji. The character
repertoire of the Unicode Standard is synchronized with ISO/IEC 10646, and both are
code-for-code identical.

The Unicode Standard consists of a set of code charts for visual reference, an encoding
method and set of standard character encodings, a set of reference data files, and a
number of related items, such as character properties, rules for normalization,
decomposition, collation, rendering, and bidirectional display order (for the correct
display of text containing both right-to-left scripts, such as Arabic and Hebrew, and left-
to-right scripts)

Difference between ASCII and UNICODE

ASCII and Unicode are two character encodings. Basically, they are standards on how
to represent difference characters in binary so that they can be written, stored,

transmitted, and read in digital media. The main difference between the two is in the
way they encode the character and the number of bits that they use for each. ASCII
originally used seven bits to encode each character. This was later increased to eight
with Extended ASCII to address the apparent inadequacy of the original. In contrast,
Unicode uses a variable bit encoding program where you can choose between 32, 16,
and 8-bit encodings. Using more bits lets you use more characters at the expense of
larger files while fewer bits give you a limited choice but you save a lot of space. Using
fewer bits (i.e. UTF-8 or ASCII) would probably be best if you are encoding a large
document in English.

One of the main reasons why Unicode was the problem arose from the many non-
standard extended ASCII programs. Unless you are using the prevalent page, which is
used by Microsoft and most other software companies, then you are likely to encounter
problems with your characters appearing as boxes. Unicode virtually eliminates this
problem as all the character code points were standardized.

in the world while ASCII does not.

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