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ASCII Table

ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange and assigns numeric codes to characters for computer processing. While ASCII was originally developed for teletypes, today an ASCII file just means plain text without formatting that any computer can read. Extended ASCII codes were later developed to allow additional characters as needs grew beyond the original ASCII specifications.

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ASCII Table

ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange and assigns numeric codes to characters for computer processing. While ASCII was originally developed for teletypes, today an ASCII file just means plain text without formatting that any computer can read. Extended ASCII codes were later developed to allow additional characters as needs grew beyond the original ASCII specifications.

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ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

Computers can only understand numbers, so an ASCII code is the


numerical representation of a character such as 'a' or '@' or an action of some sort. ASCII was developed a long time ago and now the non-
printing characters are rarely used for their original purpose. elow is the ASCII character table and this includes descriptions of the first !"
non-printing characters. ASCII was actually designed for use with teletypes and so the descriptions are somewhat obscure. If someone says
they want your C# however in ASCII format, all this means is they want 'plain' te$t with no formatting such as tabs, bold or underscoring - the
raw format that any computer can understand. %his is usually so they can easily import the file into their own applications without issues.
&otepad.e$e creates ASCII te$t, or in 'S (ord you can save a file as 'te$t only'
)$tended ASCII Codes
As people gradually re*uired computers to understand additional characters and non-printing characters the ASCII set became restrictive. As
with most technology, it too+ a while to get a single standard for these e$tra characters and hence there are few varying 'e$tended' sets. %he
most popular is presented below.

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