CAMBRIDGE IGCSE Topic 1.2 Representing characters and character sets
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CAMBRIDGE 0478 & 0984 Specification Reference - Section 1.2 - 1
Don't forget, whenever the orange note icon appears in the corner of the screen, that is your cue to take notes about the content being shown on the current slide.
00:00 Representing characters and character sets
00:08 Intro
00:13 Storing characters in binary
03:29 The ASCII character set
05:03 The UNICODE character set
06:07 ASCII vs UNICODE
07:23 Recap
07:44 Outro
Last updated: 14.05.25
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