The information volume of the text of the book typed on a computer using the Unicode encoding of 128

The information volume of the text of the book typed on a computer using the Unicode encoding of 128 kilobytes to determine the number of characters in the text of the book.

In Unicode, each character in the text is encoded in 2 bytes of memory (or 16 bits). In this version of the encoding, you can encode 2 ^ 16 = 65536 different characters.

Let’s translate the information volume of the original text of the book into bytes.

1 KB = 1024 bytes, therefore, 128 KB = 128 * 1024 = 131072 bytes.

If each character of the text of the book is encoded with 2 bytes, then the original text contains:

131072 bytes: 2 bytes = 65536 characters.