E.6. Character Ranges

Fill in the blanks in each of the following.

1. Global software developers had to __________ their products to a specific market before distribution.
2. The Unicode Standard is a(n) __________ standard that facilitates the uniform production and distribution of software products.
3. The four design basis that constitute the Unicode Standard are: __________, __________, __________ and __________.
4. A(n) __________ is the smallest written component the can be represented with a numeric value.
5. Software that can execute on different operating systems is said to be __________.
6. Of the three encoding forms, __________ is currently supported by Internet Explorer 5.5 and Netscape Communicator 6.

State whether each of the following is true or false. If false, explain why.

1. The Unicode Standard encompasses all the world's characters.
2. A Unicode code value is represented as U+yyyy, where yyyy represents a number in binary notation.
3. A diacritic is a character with a special mark that emphasizes an accent.
4. Unicode is portable.
5. When designing C# programs, Unicode characters are denoted by #uyyyy.