Monday, March 9, 2009

ASCII & Unicode

ASCII, also known as the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a coding standard and is thereby used for interchanging information such as languages. This code can only use 256 characters and therefore only the English and Western Europe languages (so basically English).

Unicode on the other hand, is a 16 bit coding standard that contains the world's languages, both modern and historic.

Their purposes are to send, receive and convert different languages in code.

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