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Due to the advancement of technology and our use of computers, the importance of ASCII and EBCDIC have all but ebbed. Both were important in the process of language encoding, however ASCII used 7 bits to encode characters before being extended where EBCDIC used 8 bits for that same process. ASCII has more characters than its counterpart and its ordering of letters is linear. EBCDIC is not. There are different versions of ASCII and despite this, most are compatible to one another; due to IBMs exclusive monopolization of EBCDIC, this encoding cannot meet the standards of modern day encoding schemes, like Unicode.
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∙ 10y agoASCII is a 7 bit encoding character set, so it has up to 128 letters. On the other hand, EBCDIC is a 8 bit encoding character set, so it has up to 256 letters.
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Ascii value of 255?
ASCII standardizes characters between 0 and 127.
What is the difference between binary code and extendible binary code?
There is no such thing as extendible (sic) binary code. However, there are two known variants: eXtendable Binary (XB) is a universal file format used for serialising binary trees. Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC) was an 8-bit character encoding used by IBM in the 1960's. It's a non-standard encoding that was used by IBM prior to them switching to ASCII peripherals.
What is ASCII value of 0?
The ascii value of zero - is 48.
What is ASCII value of 5?
Ascii value of 5 is 53.
What is the difference between Scan code and the ASCII code for a keyboard key?
A scancode (or scan code) is the data that most computer keyboards send to a computer to report which keys have been pressed. A number, or sequence of numbers, is assigned to each key on the keyboard.
What is the difference between 5 and '5'?
In C programming 5 is 5 (obviously), while '5' if 0x35 in ASCII, 0xF5 in EBCDIC.
What ASCII and EBCDIC?
coding character data
What is that EBCDIC?
EBCDIC is Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code. It was the character encoding scheme developed and used by IBM. EBCDIC is completely overshadowed by ASCII and ASCII's big brother, Unicode. EBCDIC is very difficult to use, as the alphabet is non-contiguous and the encoding makes no logical sense.
What is the character set in c programs?
Ascii, Ebcdic, etc: platform-dependent
What are the advantages and disadvantages of EBCDIC?
EBCDIC (Extended Binary-Coded Decimal Interchange Code) is a character encoding system used by IBM mainframe computers. It is a binary code used to represent character data, and is an extension of the earlier ASCII code. EBCDIC is used primarily on IBM mainframe computers, and its variants are used on IBM midrange computers. EBCDIC has a number of advantages over ASCII. First, it is a more efficient code, requiring fewer bits to represent a character. Second, it allows for more characters to be represented, including accented characters and non-Latin alphabets. Third, it has built-in error-checking features that ASCII does not have. However, EBCDIC also has a number of disadvantages. First, it is not as widely used as ASCII, so there is less software available that can work with it. Second, it is not as easy to convert data from EBCDIC to ASCII (or vice versa) as it is with ASCII. Finally, EBCDIC is a proprietary code, developed and owned by IBM, so it cannot be used by other computer manufacturers without a license from IBM.
Computer use special code for representing letter and number knows as the?
ASCII, EBCDIC and Unicode
Why is ascii transfer sometimes necessary?
It performs conversion between different codesets, like ASCII and EBCDIC, and fixes the line-end incompatiblity between different systems (WinDos: CRLF, Unix: LF, Macintosh: CR)
What is the difference between ascii and iscii?
one of the major difference b/w ISCII and ASCII is that ASCII offers a larger range of characters than ISCII.
Show how your surname would be stored using ASCII code?
Stored? It would not be stored as ASCII -- ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is in common use in the US (EBCDIC - Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code is another type of ASCII and is used in many European countries.)My name is, for example, Bill TheCat - TheCat is my surname and is represented (not stored) in ASCII as "TheCat". Computers store data as 0s and 1s (in BINARY, which is not the same as EBCDIC) format.
Different types of alphanumeric code?
ASCII EBCDIC Unicode search wikipedia for knowing more about these alpha numeric codes!
Is a byte a single character?
In ASCII, EBCDIC, FIELDATA, etc. yes. However Unicode characters are composed of multiple bytes.
What are the difference between Unicode and ASCII code?
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