C Character Sets
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Character Sets
• Unicode standard
– Universal character encoding scheme
– Assigns a unique numeric value, called a code
point, to each character
– 16 bits
– Over 65,000 characters can be represented
• ASCII (American Standard Code for Information
Interchange) character set corresponds to the first
128 characters of the Unicode character set
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Table C-1 Unicode/ASCII character codes
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