Active Oldest Votes. Sibren 10 10 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges. Typically, characters sets so described have a one byte encoding. However, not all have characters ex. No matter what you call them, it is often crucial to know which one is being used, so it's best to avoid the term "Extended ASCII. In , IBM developed an extension of 8-bit ASCII code, called "code page ", in this version were replaced some obsolete control characters for graphic characters.
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In most cases, the extra space is used to cater for country-specific variations. However, the first characters are always preserved in their original form. In ASCII, the system converts binary numbers into printable and non-printable characters according to a specified standard, as listed in the table above.
Users can also perform these computational processes without any aids. All you have to do is understand how to calculate in binary or hexadecimal. In a number system, each digit corresponds to the power on a particular basis: in the decimal system, the base is The bases are 2 and 16 for binary and hexadecimal systems, respectively. Multiply the value of the digit by the value of the digit. To do this, hold down the Alt key and enter the decimal value of the character using the number pad on the keyboard.
However, Unicode has only been displacing the old character encoding method used during the early days of the internet since The spectrum ranges from lettering, to simple stick figures, to real paintings. ASCII artists use the different brightness levels of individual characters to create light and shade in their artworks. UTF-8 is method of Unicode character encoding, which claims to cover all modern languages for data processing. The format has significantly influenced international digital communication.
And what is special about UTF-8 in the Unicode character set? Here you can find out which structure the coding is based on, and which bytes are permitted in the standard Since the introduction of internationalized domain names in , Punycode has been ubiquitous on the internet. How does this work, and why is Punycode criticized so often? But why? The answer can be found in the technology as well as in the sheer elegance of the binary system.
It is a lot simpler than many people think. Can you perform calculations with binary code too? The unused nibble may be either all 0's or all 1's. This occurs in data transmission where numbers are being transmitted over a communications link. Packed BCD reduces the amount of time spent transmitting the numbers, as each data byte transmitted results in the sending of two BCD digits. The computer handles each boolean variable as a single bit. If the bit is TRUE, then is has a value of 1.
Consider the case in a program where we need to keep track of the number of minutes a phone line is busy for within the limited range of 0 to This does not require the use of a full integer, so some programming languages allow you to specify the number of bits used to allocate to variables with limited ranges. The advantage of this approach, is that the storage space of status variables can be combined together into a single 16 or 32 bits, resulting in a saving of space.
Consider where a computer allocates 16 bits of storage per status variable. If we had three status variables, the space consumed would be 48 bits. BUT, if all the status variables could be combined and fitted into a single 16 bits of storage, we could save 32 bits of memory. This is very important in real-time systems where memory space is at a premium. Consider the following diagram, which illustrates the packing of boolean and status variables together into a single byte.
Lets now look at the encoding method. The table below shows the bit combinations required for each character.
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