7 — "i SECTION 1.1 DATA COMMUNICATIONS 5 & Data Representation Information today comes in different forms such as text, numbers, images, audio, and Text In data communications, text is represented as a bit pattern, a sequence of bits (Os or 1s), The number of bits in a pattern depends on the number of symbols in the language, For example, the English language uses 26 symbols (A, B, C, . . . . Z) to represent uppercase letters, 26 symbols (a, b,¢, ..., 2) to represent lowercase letters, 10 symbols (0, 1, 2,...,9) to represent numeric characters, and symbols (., 2, :.;---» !) 10 repre~ sent punctuation, Other symbols such as the blank, the newline, and the tab are used for text alignment and readability. Different sets of bit patterns have been designed to represent text symbols. Each set is called a code, and the process of representing symbols is called coding. ASCII The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) developed a code called the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII). This code uses 7 bits for each symbol. This means 128 (27) different symbols can be defined by this code. The full bit patterns for ASCII code are found in Appendix A. Extended ASCII To make the size of cach pattern 1 byte (8 bits), the ASCTI bit pat- terns are augmented with an extra 0 at the left, Now each pattern is exactly 1 byte of In other words, in extended ASCII, the first pattern ‘is 00000000 and the last one is OLLI1N11. Unicode Neither of the foregoing codes represents symbols belonging to languages other than English. For that, a ‘chde with much greater ‘capacity is needed. A coalition of hardware and software manufacturers have designed a code called ‘Unicode that uses 16 bits and can represent up to 65,536 (2'®) symbols. Different sections of the code are allocated to symbols from different languages in the world. Some parts of the code are used for graphical and special symbols. ISO. The Intemational Organization for Stan a code using a 32-bit pattern, This code can represent ols, which is definitely enough to represent any symbol in \dardization, known as ISO, has designed up to 4,294,967,296 (2) sym- the world today. Numbers [Numbers are also represented by using bit pattems. However, a code such as ASCH is et used to represent numbers; dhe number is diretly converted to binary nun i ix B lists Scanned with CamScannera! 6 CHAPTER i INTRODUCTION second case, there is a better representation of the memory is needed to store the image, the image (bette “after an image is divided into pixels, each pixel is ass ng, and the value of the pattern depend on the image. For an image ei pate sndewhite dots (e.g. a chessboard), a 1-bit pattern is enough one Fogg te Tran image is not made of pure white and pure black piney og Pl size of the bit pattern to include gray scale. 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