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Intro to ICT - ASCII By Dr.

Naeem Ahmed

Chapter 2 (B)
ASCII Standard

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ASCII Standard
• ASCII stands for American Standard Code for
Information Interchange.

• It ranges from 0 to 255 in Decimal or 00 to FF in


Hexadecimal.

• ASCII codes can be divided into two sets - Standard


ASCII codes and Extended ASCII codes.

• Standard ASCII codes range from 0 to 127 in Decimal or


00 to 7F in Hexadecimal, they are mainly used for
representing characters, such as characters "a" to "z"
and number "0" to "9", these are called printable
characters

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ASCII Standard
• Note that code 0 to 31 (Decimal) in Standard ASCII are
not printable, they are assigned for control characters
that are used to control some peripheral devices such as
printers, for example, 12 represents the Form Feed /
New Page function. This command instructs a printer to
skip to the top of the next page.

• Extended ASCII codes range from 128 to 255 in Decimal


or 80 to FF in Hexadecimal. They meet the demand for
more characters and symbols that are used for many
languages. Together with the control codes (0 to 31) in
Standard ASCII table, Extended ASCII codes are also
widely used in communication protocol, such as RS-232,
RS-485, RS-422 and TTL systems.

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Standard-ASCII-Table

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Extended-ASCII-Table

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