Saturday, February 21

Unicode - ASCII

The most popular character set being used was ASCII. ASCII is the acronym from American Standard Code for Information Interchange. ASCII character set includes 128 different character including upper cases and lower cases English alphabets , numbers and others special characters, each of these characters is represented by a unique number ranging from 0 to 127.
In java uses different character sets called as Unicode. Unicode uses 16 bit to represent one character and supports 256 characters. Of there, first 1287 characters are the same as those in the ASCII character set. The remaining characters are used t represent the characters of other language like Tamil, Hindi, Latin, Greek, Arabic and so on.

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