Encoding schemes ASCII ISCII and Unicode Theory
Concept ID: XI_U1_ENCODING_SCHEMES.
Primary Sub-subtopic: Encoding schemes ASCII ISCII and Unicode.
Question-bank grouping: Number Systems and Encoding.
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Encoding schemes ASCII ISCII and Unicode
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ID 1076 · 2025 · 1 mark(s)
UTF-8 is an encoding scheme of .
a) Images
b) Audio
c) characters (Text)
d) Videos
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ID 1118 · 2025 · 1 mark(s)
Which encoding scheme has code points for all the known languages?
a) ASCII
b) Unicode
c) ISCII
d) none of these
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ID 1224 · 2025 · 1 mark(s)
What is the full form of ISCII
a. International standard Code for Information Interchange
b. Indian Standard code for Information Interchange
c. International Standard Code for Information Interchange
d. None of these
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ID 1252 · 2025 · 1 mark(s)
What is the primary advantage of the Unicode encoding scheme over ASCII?
(a) It supports a range of characters, including multiple languages.
(b) It is faster to process data.
(c) It uses fewer bits for encoding characters.
(d) It is limited to representing English characters.
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ID 1559 · 2025 · 1 mark(s)
Which encoding scheme uses 7 bits to represent characters?
a) ASCII
b) Unicode
c) ISCII
d) EBCDIC
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ID 1611 · 2025 · 2 mark(s)
Differentiate between ASCII and ISCII.
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ID 1101 · 2025 · 4 mark(s)
State True or False:
(i) Python is an example of a high-level programming language.
(ii) ASCII can represent characters of multiple languages.
(iii) In Python, // operator is used for floor division.
(iv) In hexadecimal, the digit 'F' represents decimal 15.
Number Systems and Encoding → Number systems and conversions, Encoding schemes ASCII ISCII and Unicode