What is Unicode?
Unicode is a character encoding well known used in conversation structures and computer systems. Unlike ASCII, which uses 7-bit encoding and encodes 128 unique characters (zero-127), Unicode makes use of variable-period encoding to symbolize a full-size variety of characters from numerous scripts and languages. Unicode can represent over 1,000,000 distinct characters, making it a comprehensive character encoding standard.
The interesting thing over here is that the ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a subset of the UNICODE (Universal Coded Character Set) encoding standard. Therefore there is not any need to convert ASCII to UNICODE as we have same values representing the characters in ASCII and UNICODE.
Program to Convert ASCII to Unicode
In this article, we will learn about different character encoding techniques which are ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) and Unicode (Universal Coded Character Set), and the conversion of ASCII to Unicode.
Table of Content
- What is ASCII Characters?
- What is ASCII Table?
- What is Unicode?
- Need for ASCII to Unicode Conversion
- Algorithm for ASCII to Unicode Conversion