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Question 5

A global messaging application needs to store and display text messages sent by users worldwide.

Explain one reason why the developers of the application would choose to use Unicode rather than standard 7-bit ASCII to encode the characters in these messages.

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Data representation Questions

  1. IGCSE
  2. /Computer Science
  3. /Data representation

21 exam-style questions on Edexcel IGCSE Computer Science Data representation. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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