Thursday, September 30, 2010

Week 5- ASCII and Unicode

This week in class we learned about the American Standard Code for Information Interchange or ASCII and the Unicode. ASCII is a character-encoding scheme that only has about 128 values, unlike the Unicode that has more than 100,000 characters. The Unicode includes ASCII and is considered to be the universal character set around the world.
 Unicode is the dominant scheme for storage of text and internal processing. Every computer and operating system uses this code and therefore can not operate without it. This website would use this code to be created and operated.
When storing information in a computer there are many different prefixes that are used depending on the size of the storage needed. This blog allows the user 3 GB, which stands for gigabyte. This website would need to have a large amount of storage space in order to continue to add information, pictures, and videos from different events.

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