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Why was Unicode introduced?.
- A.To replace all forms of binary data with decimal data
- B.To provide a coding system capable of representing a much wider range of characters
- C.To make ASCII use fewer than seven bits
- D.To prevent computers from storing character data
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- To provide a coding system capable of representing a much wider range of characters
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Unicode was introduced because ASCII could not represent the wide range of characters used by different languages and in many symbols.
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