Practice Introduction To Encodings (2.1) - Encodings

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Question 1.
What does ASCII stand for?
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It’s an acronym.
Question 2.
True or False: Encoding is only necessary for text data.
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Think of images and audio.
3Question 3.
What does ASCII represent?
- Only numbers
- Only letters
- Characters including letters and symbols
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Think about what a standard code includes.
4Question 4.
True or False: Unicode is limited to English characters.
- True
- False
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Consider how many languages are used worldwide.
Question 5.
How would the interpretation of a character differ if a document encoded in UTF-8 is opened with an ASCII-compatible program? Define what this could mean for data integrity.
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Consider how many characters are left out by ASCII.
Question 6.
If you were to design a system that requires both ASCII and Unicode support, what considerations would you take into account to ensure proper encoding?
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Think about language support in your system.

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