Coding Scheme
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Combination of 0s and 1s that represent character.
Popular Coding Scheme.
- ASCII
- Extended ASCII
- EBCDIC
- Unicode
Coding Scheme.
- ASCII widely used coding scheme while EBCDIC on mainframe computer and high end server.
- Unicode can support more than 65000 characters and symbols.
Extended ASCII.
- 8 bits represent character.
- Can represent 256 characters.
- Extra characters represent characters from foreign languages and special symbol for drawing picture.
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