Systems Architecture
Systems Architecture
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ISBN: 9781305080195
Author: Stephen D. Burd
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Difference between American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) and Unicode:

The following table represents the difference between ASCII and Unicode,

ASCIIUnicode

ASCII code uses about 1 byte of space in the memory.

The Unicode character takes about 2 bytes of space in the memory.

This uses complete 1 byte of information to store the “sign information” and there is no information about the “language page”.

This uses 1 byte to store the information about the “sign” and another 1 byte to store about the: language”...

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