You have asked us all to research ascii and unicode ....
Though I am unsure as to if you do require all these codes I shall just give a brief explanation as to my interpretation of both ...
Ascii:-
ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange .... because computers only understand numbers the code ascii is a numerical equivalent for all the characters on your keyboard ...
although if someone requires documentation in an ascii format then you would use a program like notepad as that writes in an ascii format with none of the glitter and glam of Microsofts Word
Unicode:-
Is a universal Code that gives each character a number that can be reconised across EVERY PLATFORM ... wether it is mac or pc or linux ....
Tis a brilliant system that should have been vigoriously implemented at computers first conception....
The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization founded to develop, extend and promote use of the Unicode Standard ...
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