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Data Representation - Characters

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Data Representation: Characters

ASCII

● American Standard Code for Information Interchange


● ASCII represents characters as numbers that can be
stored as binary in a computer.
e.g. A = 65 = 01000001
B = 66 = 01000010 etc
ASCII
● ASCII is 7 bit, it uses 0 to 127
● It includes instructions to control old electronic typewriters.
Code Your Name In Decimal ASCII

● Make sure you use capital


and small letters
appropriately:

● J = 74
● o = 111
● h = 104
● n = 110
● space = 32
● S = 83
● m = 109
● i = 105
● t = 116
● h = 104
Decode This Hex ASCII into words

● 48
● 65
● 6C
● 6C
● 6F
● 20
● 57
● 6F
● 72
● 6C
● 64
● 21
Extended ASCII

No support for Cyrillic, Simplified Chinese, Japanese or many other languages


Extended ASCII
● Extended ASCII is 8 bit.
● It uses 128 to 255 for characters from different languages and
shapes.

No support
for Cyrillic,
Simplified
Chinese,
Japanese or
many other
languages
Unicode

Up to 32 bits (4 bytes) = 2,147,483,647 (2 billion) different


characters.

Every language, loads of symbols, pictures, emojis etc.

The first 128 symbols are the standard ASCII character set
for backwards compatibility
Remember it

● Characters are converted to numbers to be stored as


binary by computers.
● Add: The table of characters and numbers together is
called a character set.

● ASCII uses 7 bits for basic letters and punctuation.

● Extended ASCII uses 8 bits to add characters from


different languages and shapes.

● Unicode uses up to 32 bits giving characters of every


Remember it

● Ch*r*ct*rs ar* c*nv*rt*d t* n*mb*rs t* b* st*r*d as b*n*ry


by c*mp*t*rs.

● ASC** us*s 7 b*ts f*r b*s*c l*tt*rs and p*nct**t**n.

● Ext*nd*d ASC** us*s 8 b*ts t* add ch*r*ct*rs fr*m d*ff*r*nt


l*ng**g*s and sh*p*s.

● Un*c*d* us*s up t* 32 b*ts g*v*ng ch*r*ct*rs of ev*ry


l*ng**g*, symb*ls, em*j*s etc.
Remember it

● Cactntbsabbc

● Au7bfblap

● EAu8btacfdlas

● Uuut3bgcoelsee
Am*r*c*n st*nd*rd c*d* f*r inf*rm*t**n int*rch*ng*

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