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Information and Communication Technology 3.5 Character Coding System. Ho Cheuk In S4A (21). American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII). Common character coding system Each code represents either a printable character or a non-printable character
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Information and Communication Technology3.5 Character Coding System Ho Cheuk In S4A (21)
American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) • Common character coding system • Each code represents either a printable character or a non-printable character • Each character consists of 7 bits, it contain 128 different characters • Include small and capital letters, digits and graphics symbols
Chinese Character Coding System • Usually represented in Big5 code, Guo Biao(GB)code and Unicode
Big5 code & GB code • Both are use two bytes (16 bits) • Use different codes to represent the same Chinese characters • Big5 – traditional Chinese popular in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan • GB – simplified Chinese Example
Unicode • Represent all the existing languages in the world • International standard code