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What are the difference between ASCII, EBCDIC and Unicode???

April 26, 2017ASCII Computers design EBCDIC internet Programming Unicode

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What are the difference between ASCII, EBCDIC and Unicode???

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PC’s, terminals and most Unix Boxes use ASCII. (As weel as most web pages and most databases) Mainframes use EBCDIC. Both of those are 1 byte per character. Unicode is a coding where characters require 2 bytes per character. Windows can use unicode, but it is not required. It is useful if extra characters not supported in the 1 byte character sets are needed in the same document that the normal characters are used.