ASCII
ASCII is a character encoding standard that maps English letters, digits, symbols and control characters to 7-bit numbers.
1 article
Last mentioned ASCII, short for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard defined in the United States in the 1960s. It assigns the numbers 0 through 127 to 128 characters, of which 95 are printable and the rest are control characters such as line feeds.
The first 128 characters of Unicode and UTF-8 match ASCII, so it still underlies most computer text. Pictures drawn using only these characters are known as ASCII art.
This entry is based on AIPOST articles and widely known facts. If something is wrong, please send us a correction request.