An international logistics consortium is developing a unified database for tracking shipping container manifests across global ports, including Rotterdam, Shanghai, Tokyo, and Alexandria. The system must process cargo descriptions entered in different local writing systems. The lead systems architect has chosen to implement UTF-8 Unicode rather than standard 7-bit ASCII.
Identify two distinct reasons why Unicode is more suitable than standard 7-bit ASCII for this global logistics database.
14 exam-style questions on AQA GCSE Computer Science Character encoding. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.