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A software developer is creating a document system that may contain English, Greek, Arabic and other symbols. Recommend ASCII or Unicode and justify the choice. Include a limitation of the rejected system.
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- Unicode should be used because it is designed to represent a much wider range of characters, including characters from different written languages and additional symbols.
- ASCII would be unsuitable because its limited character set cannot represent all the characters required by the document system.
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The recommendation must be supported by the range of characters required. Unicode is appropriate because it can represent a much wider range, while ASCII's limited character set is the relevant limitation.
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