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Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. Developed in conjunction with the Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) standard and published as The Unicode Standard, the latest version of Unicode contains a repertoire of more than 120,000 characters covering 129 modern and historic scripts, as well as multiple symbol sets. The standard consists of a set of code charts for visual reference, an encoding method and set of standard character encodings, a set of reference data files, and a number of related items, such as character properties, rules for normalization, decomposition, collation, rendering, and bidirectional display order (for the correct display of text containing both right-to-left scripts, such as Arabic and Hebrew, and left-to-right scripts). As of June 2015[update], the most recent version is Unicode 8.0. The standard is maintained by the Unicode Consortium.

Unicode can be implemented by different character encodings. The most commonly used encodings are UTF-8, UTF-16 and the now-obsolete UCS-2. UTF-8 uses one byte for any ASCII character, all of which have the same code values in both UTF-8 and ASCII encoding, and up to four bytes for other characters. UCS-2 uses a 16-bit code unit (two 8-bit bytes) for each character but cannot encode every character in the current Unicode standard. UTF-16 extends UCS-2, using one 16-bit unit for the characters that were representable in UCS-2 and two 16-bit units (4 8 bits) to handle each of the additional characters.
1. how many common encodes?
2. are they all still in use?
3. what one is not longer used?
4. what is the first common one?
5. how many bytes does it use?
6. for what?
7. what is the second one?

Numbered answers:
1. Three
2. No
3. UCS-2
4. UTF-8
5. one
6. any ASCII character
7. UTF-16

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Long Beach is a city on the Pacific Coast of the United States, within the Greater Los Angeles area of Southern California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257. It is the 36th most populous city in the United States and the 7th most populous in California. Long Beach is the second largest city in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, and the third largest in Southern California behind Los Angeles and San Diego.

The Port of Long Beach is the second busiest container port in the United States and is among the world's largest shipping ports. The city also maintains a progressively declining oil industry with minor wells located both directly beneath the city as well as offshore. Manufacturing sectors include those in aircraft, automotive parts, electronic equipment, audiovisual equipment, petrochemicals, precision metals and home furnishings.

Long Beach lies in the southeastern corner of Los Angeles County and borders Orange County. Downtown Long Beach is approximately south of downtown Los Angeles, though the two cities share an official border for several miles.

Indigenous people have lived in coastal Southern California for over 10,000 years, and several successive cultures have inhabited the present-day area of Long Beach. By the 16th-century arrival of Spanish explorers, the dominant group were the Tongva people. They had at least three major settlements within the present-day city. "Tevaaxa'anga" was an inland settlement near the Los Angeles River, while "Ahwaanga" and "Povuu'nga" were coastal villages. Along with other Tongva villages, they were forced to relocate in the mid-19th century due to missionization, political change, and a drastic drop in population from exposure to European diseases.
1. When did Spanish explorers get to Long Beach?
2. Who were the main people living there at that time?
3. How many of their own large areas did they reside in?
4. Which one was inland?
5. What happened to the Tongva people?
6. What's one reason for that?
7. Which reason was do to outsiders from another continent?
8. Which coast is Long Beach on?
9. Which state is it in?
10. Where does it rank in population in California?
11. And in size within the Los Angeles area?

Numbered answers:
1. 16th-century
2. the Tongva people
3. three
4. "Tevaaxa'anga"
5. they were forced to relocate in the mid-19th century
6. missionization
7. exposure to European diseases
8. southeastern corner
9. California
10. 7th most
11. second largest

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CHAPTER XXXV: A PRIZE FOR HONOUR

'T is brave for Beauty when the best blade wins her.

THE COUNT PALATINE

When Quentin Durward reached Peronne, a council was sitting, in the issue of which he was interested more deeply than he could have apprehended, and which, though held by persons of a rank with whom one of his could scarce be supposed to have community of interest, had nevertheless the most extraordinary influence on his fortunes.

King Louis, who, after the interlude of De la Marck's envoy, had omitted no opportunity to cultivate the returning interest which that circumstance had given him in the Duke's opinion, had been engaged in consulting him, or, it might be almost said, receiving his opinion, upon the number and quality of the troops, by whom, as auxiliary to the Duke of Burgundy, he was to be attended in their joint expedition against Liege. He plainly saw the wish of Charles was to call into his camp such Frenchmen as, from their small number and high quality, might be considered rather as hostages than as auxiliaries; but, observant of Crevecoeur's advice, he assented as readily to whatever the Duke proposed, as if it had arisen from the free impulse of his own mind.

The King failed not, however, to indemnify himself for his complaisance by the indulgence of his vindictive temper against Balue, whose counsels had led him to repose such exuberant trust in the Duke of Burgundy. Tristan, who bore the summons for moving up his auxiliary forces, had the farther commission to carry the Cardinal to the Castle of Loches, and there shut him up in one of those iron cages which he himself is said to have invented.
1. Where did Quentin Durward go?
2. Was a meeting going on when he got there?
3. Who was holding it?
4. Did he care about the meetings topic?
5. Whose thoughts is King Louis interested in?
6. What did he ask him about?
7. What does he want to know about them?
8. Who are they attacking?
9. Who is giving him troops?
10. A lot of them?
11. Are they good?
12. What country are they from?
13. What does he think they can be called?
14. Who had given him advice?
15. Did he agree with the Duke?
16. Who is the King upset with?
17. Who had he trusted?
18. Who convinced him he was trustworthy?
19. Where is the Cardinal going?
20. Who is taking him?
Numbered answers:
1. Peronne
2. yes
3. a council
4. yes
5. Duke's
6. troops
7. the number and quality
8. Liege
9. Charles
10. no
11. yes
12. France
13. hostages
14. Crevecoeur
15. yes
16. Balue
17. the Duke of Burgundy
18. Balue
19. the Castle of Loches
20. Tristan