Data Communication: Data Communications and Networking, 5th Edition by Behrouz A. Forouzan
Data Communication: Data Communications and Networking, 5th Edition by Behrouz A. Forouzan
Text
Numbers
Images
Audio
Video
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3. Data Representation cont..
1. Text
– Represented as a bit pattern, a sequence of bits (0s or 1s).
– Different sets of bit patterns have been designed to represent text
symbols.
– Each set is called a code.
– Process of representing symbols is called coding.
– Unicode
• Common coding system.
• It uses 32 bits to represent a symbol or character in any
language.
– American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)
• Developed some decades ago in the United States.
• Constitutes the first 127 characters in Unicode.
• Also referred to as Dr.Basic Latin.
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3. Data Representation cont..
2. Numbers
– Represented by bit patterns.
– It is directly converted to a binary number.