FC0-U71 Tech Concepts and Terminology Practice Question
Which of the following character encoding standards supports characters from most of the world's languages and uses a variable number of bytes per character?
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Why each option matters
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Unicode/UTF-8
UTF-8 (a Unicode encoding) uses 1 to 4 bytes per character and supports a vast range of characters.
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Base64
Why it's wrong here
Base64 is an encoding for binary data, not characters.
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EBCDIC
Why it's wrong here
EBCDIC is an older IBM encoding.
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Unicode/UTF-8
Why this is correct
Correct.
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ASCII
Why it's wrong here
ASCII is 7-bit and only supports 128 characters (English).
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