Character Sets - Word Drop

The full group of characters that a computer can represent is called a ______. Computers hold only 1s and 0s, so every character is stored as its own pattern of ______ digits. The code created in the 1960s to represent the English alphabet is ______, which uses 7 bits for each character. Those 7 bits give ______ different codes, enough for letters, digits and punctuation.

The letter codes run in alphabetical ______, so each letter is one more than the one before it. Capital letters therefore have different codes from ______ letters. Even the ______ between words has its own code. The character 7 is stored with a different code from the number 7 held as an ______.

Using only 7 bits for each character is a ______, because the number of bits available decides how many characters can be stored. A longer code could hold more symbols, but ASCII cannot represent letters and symbols from other ______, so it is not suitable for storing all text.