1. Computer Systems, Computing Higher

Description of Unicode and its advantages over American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)

ASCII and UNICODE are both used to represent text in computer systems.
(a) Describe one advantage of UNICODE over ASCII.
(b) Describe one disadvantage of UNICODE over ASCII.

The contents of the “DateofBirth” variable are to be held in memory in ASCII format. Calculate the minimum amount of memory required to store the contents of this variable.