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What is the primary function of ASCII?

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What is the primary function of ASCII?.

  1. A.To represent a wide range of characters
  2. B.To represent basic Latin characters
  3. C.To support multiple languages
  4. D.To encode images

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Character Encoding

Character encoding is the method used to represent text in computers. ASCII and Unicode are two common character sets used for this purpose.

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    State the main difference between ASCII and Unicode.

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