Question

What is the advantage and disadvantage of ascii code?

Answer 1

Answer:

disadvantages of ASCII : maximum 128 characters that is not enough for some key boards having special characters.

7bit may not enough to represent larger values. advantage compare to EBCDIC are 7bit so quickly transferable in a fraction of time.

Answer 2

        The advantages of and disadvantages of ASCII code are given below.      

      Advantages:

• ASCII code use English language so it can store all alphanumeric characters.

• ASCII code takes less space as it has only 256 characters.

Disadvantages:

• ASCII code uses only ENGLISH language.
• A document written in other code can’t be read by ASCII code and it will display some characters only instead of the content.