The first block of 128 Unicode characters, Basic Latin, maps precisely to ASCII, including the unusable, obsolete teletype control codes. One of the useful attributes of Unicode is that all 256 byte ...

Whereas ASCII is limited to 128 or 256 characters however, Unicode supports 17 individual planes, each of which can map 65,536 characters, for a grand total of 1,114,112 possible characters.

Unicode outpaces ASCII for encoding Web site text, and life gets easier for Google and others that grapple with an increasingly international Internet. Google: Unicode conquers ASCII on the Web - CNET ...

What other common (or uncommon I suppose...) text encoding formats are there besides ASCII and Unicode.<BR><BR>I know that in ASCII the string 12345 would be stored as 3132333435. I've seen that ...

The difference can be easily discerned by using any Unicode encoder/decoder, such as the ASCII Smuggler. Rehberger created the tool for converting the invisible range of Unicode characters into ...