Question

Name the character encoding standard that enables up to 128 different commonly used characters,

Answer 1

Answer:

ASCII character set.

Explanation:

ASCII is an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange and it was developed from a telegraph code. It is typically a character encoding standard that comprises of seven-bit (7-bit) set of codes.

ASCII character set is the character encoding standard that enables up to 128 different commonly used characters, numbers and symbols to be used in electronic communication systems. The ASCII character set is only used for encoding English language and it comprises of both the lower case and upper case letters of the 26 alphabets, number 0 to 9 and symbols.