er systems. The strings you've been working with in this assignment all use ASCII.</p>

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  <p><strong>Q13</strong>. Suppose you are a software engineer working for the U.S. government. You have been tasked with implementing a system that collects names as part of the Census survey and analyzes these names using a phonetic algorithm. Your boss suggests using Soundex and notes that the algorithm is only expected to work for ASCII-encoded strings, since suppor