ASCII is the name given to the 256 characters and symbols that make up English and most Western European languages, it is not capable of displaying most other languages such as Asian languages. That is where Unicode comes in. It contains more than 65000 characters and is capable of displaying all the worlds languages, even ancient ones. The first 256 characters of Unicode are the same as ASCII. Visual Basic uses Unicode as its coding system.
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Monday, March 9, 2009
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