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It uses the remaining 128 codes for the character set of Indian languages. The ISCII standard applies to Devanagari
            script, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Odia, Bengali, Assamese, Telugu and many other regional languages of India. ISCII is used
            for data collection by the election commission and maintenance of land records. Note that one would require an ISCII
            keyboard to use the ISCII encoding scheme efficiently,



                   ISCII is used for encoding the data collected by the election commission. It is also used for encoding the land records.



            2.6.3 UNICODE
            Different languages are used in different regions of the world. Over time, several countries came up with standards
            for different languages. Expectedly, these schemes were not compatible with each other. Hence the need was felt for
            a unifying standard resulting in the development of Unicode Transformation Format (UNICODE). UNICODE includes
            symbols from all scripts of the world, including punctuation symbols. Unlike ASCII, which uses a fixed number of seven
            bits to encode a character, there are several UTF formats, such as UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32. The numbers 8, 16, and
            32 signify the minimum number of bytes required to encode a character. For example, UTF-8 code may use one to four
            bytes to encode a character. UTF-8 is widely used for web development.


                   Emojis are represented using UTF-8.
                   l     UTF-16: UTF-16 is a variable-length encoding scheme that uses 1 byte (8-bits)  or 2 bytes (16 bits)  to represent
                       the characters. It is not compatible with ASCII.
                   l   UTF-32: UTF-32 is a fixed-length encoding scheme that uses precisely four bytes to represent the characters.




                    1.  Give full form of the acronyms: ASCII, ISCII
                    2.  Name a variable-length encoding scheme.

                    3.  Find ASCII code for God




                 Let's Summarise


              Ø   The decimal number system uses ten symbols and is known as the base-10 number system.
              Ø   The decimal system's ten most popular symbols are Arabic numerals: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.
              Ø   Face value: The value of a symbol in the number system is called its face value. Thus, in the decimal system,
                  the symbols 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 have the face values zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
                  and nine, respectively.

              Ø   Place Value: In decimal number systems, the value of a digit within a number depends on the position of the
                  digit.

                  For example,
                  ○ the rightmost digit is called the one's digit or unit digit (value 100 = one).
                  ○ the second digit from the right end is called the tens digit (value 101 = ten).

                  ○ the third digit from the right end is called the hundreds digit (value 102 = hundred) and so on.
              Ø   In general, in a positional number system, the leftmost digit is the most significant, and the rightmost digit is
                  the least significant digit.




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