Question: 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? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Three
2. No
3. UCS-2
4. UTF-8
5. one
6. any ASCII character
7. UTF-16

Question: Several years ago, Kevin Stephan, then aged 11, was playing baseball when a player accidentally hit him with a bat. Kevin fell down and his heart stopped. Penny Brown, the mother of another player, was watching the game.Penny usually worked in the evenings as a nurse, but luckily that evening she wasn't working. Penny ran to helped Kevin and saved his life. Nearly seven years later, Kevin was washing up in the kitchen of the Hillview Restaurant in Buffalo, New York State. Normally, 18-year-old Kevin had school in the afternoon, but that week there were exams and he didn't have any class. At about 2 p.m., Penny Brown was having lunch with her family in the restaurant. She was eating when some food got stuck in her throat. She was very frightened because she couldn't breathe. Kevin was a volunteer firefighter in his free time and he ran to help. A waitress tried to help her, but the food was still stuck in Penny's throat. Kevin pulled his hands quickly into her stomach and saved Penny's life. He didn't know it was Penny, but his mother, Lorraine Stephan, was also having lunch in the restaurant. She realized that Penny was the woman who saved Kevin's life, seven years before, at the baseball game. Both Penny and Kevin were completely amazed by the coincidence ! 1. What did Penny Brown do for a living?
2. Who's life did she save?
3. How old was he then?
4. Why did he fall down?
5. What happened when he fell down?
6. Where was Kevin washing up years later?
7. How old was he then?
8. Why wasn't he in school?
9. What did he volunteer at in his free time?
10. Who else was having lunch with her family there?
11. What happened to her?
12. Who tried helping at first?
13. Did Kevin know who he was helping?
14. Was his mother's name Tonya Stephan?
15. What was it?
16. How many years ago did Penny save Kevin's life?
17. Where was that?
18. What did Kevin do to save Penny? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. she was a nurse
2. Kevin Stephan
3. 11
4. a player hit him with a bat.
5. his heart stopped.
6. in the kitchen of the Hillview Restaurant
7. 18
8. there were exams and he didn't have any class
9. as a firefighter
10. Penny Brown
11. some food got stuck in her throat
12. A waitress
13. no
14. no
15. Lorraine Stephan
16. seven
17. at the baseball game
18. he pulled his hands quickly into her stomach

Question: CHAPTER XVIII

THE HOLY HERMANDAD

Down the long passages, through the great, fretted halls, across the cool marble courts, flitted Inez and Margaret. It was like a dream. They went through a room where women, idling or working at tapestries, looked at them curiously. Margaret heard one of them say to another:

"Why does the Dona Margaret's cousin leave her?" And the answer, "Because she is in love with the marquis herself, and cannot bear to stay."

"What a fool!" said the first woman. "She is good looking, and would only have had to wait a few weeks."

They passed an open door, that of Morella's own chambers. Within it he stood and watched them go by. When they were opposite to him some doubt or idea seemed to strike his mind, for he looked at them keenly, stepped forward, then, thinking better of it, or perhaps remembering Betty's bitter tongue, halted and turned aside. That danger had gone by!

At length, none hindering them, they reached the yard where the escort and the horses waited. Here, standing under an archway, were Castell and Peter. Castell greeted Margaret in English and kissed her through her veil, while Peter, who had not seen her close since months before he rode away to Dedham, stared at her with all his eyes, and began to draw near to her, designing to find out, as he was sure he could do if once he touched her, whether indeed this were Margaret, or only Betty after all. Guessing what was in his mind, and that he might reveal everything, Inez, who held a long pin in her hand with which she was fastening her veil that had come loose, pretended to knock against him, and ran the point deep into his arm, muttering, "Fool!" as she did so. He sprang back with an oath, the guard smiled, and she began to pray his pardon. 1. Who flitted down the halls?
2. What are the women doing in the rooms?
3. What does the cousin leave?
4. Who was in his room and watched them go by?
5. Did he talk to them?
6. Where did they end up?
7. What was there waiting for them?
8. Who was there to greet them?
9. How did Margaret get greeted?
10. Who got stabbed with a pin?
11. Who stabbed him?
12. With what?
13. Where did she get it? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. Inez and Margaret
2. idling or working at tapestries
3. e is in love with the marquis herself
4. Morella
5. No, halted and turned aside
6. the yard
7. horses waited
8. Castell and Peter
9. in English and kissed her through her veil
10. Peter
11. Inez
12. long pin
13. her veil