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level: Character Encoding

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level questions: Character Encoding

Question	Answer
Commonly used character encoding schemes are	7-bit ASCII (ISO/IEC 646), 8-bit Latin-x (ISO/IEC 8859-x) and Unicode (ISO/IEC 10646)
_________ is represented using a chosen character encoding scheme in computer memory	Character
Which 16-bit encoding scheme does represent 65,536 characters and symbols?	Unicode UCS-2
_________ is an 8-bit character encoding scheme that can represent 256 characters and symbols.	Latin-X
_________ is a 7-bit encoding scheme that can represent 128 characters and symbols	ASCII
A collection of 8-bit character encoding standards for the western languages is _________	ISO/IEC-8859
Which is the encoding scheme that is extended to 8-bit to better utilize the 8-bit computer memory?	ASCII
_________ has 191 printable characters from the Latin script, which covers languages like English, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish	ISO/IEC 8859-1
Name the non-profit organization that maintains the Unicode standard.	Unicode Consortium
Which encoding scheme is backward compatible with 7-bit US-ASCII and 8-bit Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1)?	Unicode
Which are the two types of encoding schemes in Unicode?	UCS-2 and UCS-4
Which is the variable-length Unicode character encoding scheme that uses 2 to 4 bytes?	UTF-16
Which is the character encoding scheme (charset) in Windows?	Codepage
Name the default codepage used in the original DOS	Codepage 437
_________ specifies the ranks for letters (uppercase, lowercase), numbers, and special symbols	Collation
_________ is ranked before digits '0' to '9', followed by the alphabets in collation	Space
Since different languages use different sets of characters, _________ has been often language dependent	Collating sequence
_________ is used to display the hex values of a file, especially in dealing with Unicode characters	Hex editor