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ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
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ASCII, or the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard used for representing text in computers and electronic communication devices. Developed in the early 1960s, ASCII assigns numeric codes to a set of 128 characters, including letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and control characters, each represented by a 7-bit binary code. ASCII is widely used in computing for encoding and transmitting text data between different systems and devices, providing a standardized way to represent characters in digital form. While ASCII is limited to encoding basic characters in the English alphabet and some special symbols, it serves as the foundation for many other character encoding standards, such as UTF-8, which support a broader range of characters and languages.
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ASCII ( ASS-kee),: 6 an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices. ASCII has just 128 code points, of which only 95 are printable characters, which severely limit its scope. The set of available punctuation had significant impact on the syntax of computer languages and text markup. ASCII hugely influenced the design of character sets used by modern computers; for example the first 128 code points of Unicode are the same as ASCII.
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) prefers the name US-ASCII for this character encoding.
ASCII is one of the IEEE milestones.
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