Practice Introduction To Unicode (9.2.2) - Floating Point Number Representation

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Question 1.
What does Unicode do?
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Think about how computers represent letters.
Question 2.
What is a code point?
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Recall how characters are represented by numbers.
3Question 3.
What is the primary purpose of Unicode?
- To standardize numerical encoding
- To universalize character representation
- To limit characters to ASCII format
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Think about the advantages Unicode has over older encoding systems.
4Question 4.
UTF-8 can use more than one byte for certain characters.
- True
- False
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Remember how many bytes UTF-8 supports.
Question 5.
Compare and contrast Unicode with older encoding systems like ASCII and explain how this impacts software development.
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Consider how each system handles languages.
Question 6.
Create a chart showing the differences in byte usage between UTF-8 and UTF-16 with examples of characters for each.
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Focus on encoding efficiency in your examples.

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