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ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange and assigns numeric codes to characters for computer processing. While originally developed for teletypes, ASCII codes now represent text characters. An ASCII text file uses only these codes without formatting for cross-platform compatibility. Extended ASCII codes were later developed to represent additional characters beyond the original ASCII set as needs increased over time.

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Bang Ma Ascii

ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange and assigns numeric codes to characters for computer processing. While originally developed for teletypes, ASCII codes now represent text characters. An ASCII text file uses only these codes without formatting for cross-platform compatibility. Extended ASCII codes were later developed to represent additional characters beyond the original ASCII set as needs increased over time.

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Quan Nguyen <quan.mis@gmail.

com> 2011

ASCII CODES TABLE


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. Below is the ASCII character table and this includes descriptions of the first 32 non-printing characters. ASCII was actually designed for use with teletypes and so the descriptions are somewhat obscure. If someone says they want your CV however in ASCII format, all this means is they want 'plain' text with no formatting such as tabs, bold or underscoring - the raw format that any computer can understand. This is usually so they can easily import the file into their own applications without issues. Notepad.exe creates ASCII text, or in MS Word you can save a file as 'text only'.

Quan Nguyen <[email protected]> 2011

EXTENDED ASCII CODES


As people gradually required computers to understand additional characters and non-printing characters the ASCII set became restrictive. As with most technology, it took a while to get a single standard for these extra characters and hence there are few varying 'extended' sets. The most popular is presented below.

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