Horizontal Tab. Line feed. Vertical Tab. New page. Shift out. Shift in. Data link escape. Device control 1. Device control 2. Device control 3. Device control 4. If text is being stored in a computer, it is usually stored as a string a series of ASCII characters, each one of which is stored as one byte. The formatting characters such as space, carriage return and line feed may be included in the string. Some method is needed for indicating the length of the string, or where the end of the string is.
There are two main methods:. The programmer must of course know the convention being used. Therefore another code, called Unicode , was created.
This meant that computers could be used by people using different languages. Representing data All data inside a computer is transmitted as a series of electrical signals that are either on or off. Representing text When any key on a keyboard is pressed, it needs to be converted into a binary number so that it can be processed by the computer and the typed character can appear on the screen.
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