3 Sept 2013

Coding Scheme




- 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.





No comments:

Post a Comment