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What is the primary difference between ASCII and Unicode encoding systems with respect to the representation of characters?
Please select the best answer.
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ASCII represents each character as a 7-bit binary number, while Unicode uses a variable-width encoding scheme, allowing for more characters.
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ASCII uses floating-point numbers for representation, whereas Unicode employs fixed-point numbers.
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Unicode is limited to 128 unique character representations, while ASCII can represent up to 256 characters.
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ASCII and Unicode are both fixed-width, 16-bit encoding schemes primarily used for encoding symbols. |