1 Garnet is Connecticut's state mineral. 2  Eubrontes is the state fossil, visit Dinosaur State Park in Rocky Hill to learn more. 3  The highest peak in Connecticut is Bear Mountain. 4  The highest elevation in Connecticut is the slope of Mount Frissel at 2380' (the peak, 2,453' is in MA).
Unicode is a character encoding standard that has widespread acceptance. Microsoft software uses Unicode at its core. Whether you realize it or not, you are using Unicode already! Basically, âcomputers just deal with numbers. They store letters and other characters by assigning a number for each one. Before Unicode was invented, there were hundreds of different encoding systems for assigning these numbers.
In most computer systems, a byte is a unit of data that is eight binary digits long. A byte is the unit most computers use to represent a character such as a letter, number or typographic symbol. Each byte can hold a string of bits that need to be used in a larger unit for application purposes.