ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
7 bit code is 128 characters
Extended 8 bit ascii - 256 characters
UNICODE
16 bit - 65,536 characters (2^16)
+ allows us to represent more world languages like Chinese, Japanese etc
- It takes more memory per character
UNICODE has ASCII included in it at the exact same places i.e 65 in ASCII and 65 in UNICODE give A!!!!!
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