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Question 96

What enables Unicode characters to be represented in an ASCII-compatible length of 1 to 4 bytes?
  • A XOR
  • B UTF-8
  • C UTF-16
  • D EBCDIC
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Correct answer: B

Explanation

Correct Answer:

UTF-8 is correct.

In 1992, lots of work started on streamlining Unicode transmission, since Unicode needed to be compatible with ASCII for transmission over the Internet. In January of 1993, UTF-8 was presented officially at the USENIX conference in San Diego to solve this problem. It was developed to encode UTF characters in a way that could be accepted and decoded by ASCII systems. Per Google, UTF-8 is the dominant character encoding on the Web. 

Incorrect Answers:

XOR, EBCDIC, and UTF-16 are incorrect.

XOR is a logic gate comparing two inputs.

EBCDIC (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code) is a binary code for alphabetic and numeric characters.

UTF-16 is a distractor.

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