Today, after the lecture discussing the way that binary translates into a code that is more accessible to humans—text in the form of ASCII, to be more specific—we explored the ways that ASCII works, the ways that it is different from other codes used in word processors which are more complex, and the ways that it translates to them.
While ASCII works well among different formats, other data formats represent different styles and fonts more efficiently than ASCII can. Also ASCII does not represent non-Roman characters, making it necessary for other data formats to exist in order to make computing in other languages possible. However, it makes sense that as developers of Unicode and other formats, they made this decision to keep one kind of simple code that many other applications could read.
ASCII is extremely useful for translating basic text, the way we did today and Notepad, MS Word, and a browser in HTML because it can be manipulated with tags to perform certain tasks but still keep the basic information of a document. Unicode is capable of creating something like 107,000 characters versus ASCII’s puny 128 and has an unlimited number of bytes, has become the standard code. MS Word does not use ASCII because it is capable of creating many more characters than 128, but Word is able to read text files.
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