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ASCII - Character sets

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What do I need to Learn?

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I need to learn how to understand what a character set is.

I need to learn how to describe the ASCII amd Unicode character encoding methods:

I need to learn how to convert characters to character codes

I need to learn how to convert character codes to characters.

I need to learn how to understand that character codes are commonly grouped and run in sequence within encoding tables.

Key Terms

character set ASCII Extended ASCII 7 bit 8 bit

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Task: Learning Journal

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Task 2 - Character Sets - ASCII Click to see more

A character set is a defined list of characters recognized by the computer hardware and software. Each character is represented by a number. The ASCII character set, for example, uses the numbers 0 through 127 to represent all English characters as well as special control characters.