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ASCII code:

• ASCII is the acronym for the American Standard Code


for Information Interchange. It is a code for representing 128
English characters as numbers, with each letter assigned a number
from 0 to 127. For example, the ASCII code for uppercase M is 77.
Most computers use ASCII codes to represent text, which makes it
possible to transfer data from one computer to another.

• Careful counting will show that exactly 256 bytes are defined.

• Recall that a BYTE directive stores the ASCII code of each character
operand.

• Each of the first 48 bytes of the table will contain the ASCII code
for a space .

• Therefore if the code in the AL register represents any of the first


48 ASCII characters-a control character, or one of the printable
characters from 2016 (space) to 2F16 (/)-it will be translated to a
space.

On the completion of this period you would be able to know about

 EBCDIC code
 Uni code

EBCDIC code:
EBCDIC, in full extended binary-coded decimal
interchange code, data-encoding system, developed
by IBM and used mostly on its computers, that uses
a unique eight-bit binary code for each number and
alphabetic character as well as punctuation marks and
accented letters and nonalphabetic characters.
EBCDIC differs in several respects
from Unicode and ASCII, the most widely used
systems of encoding text, dividing the eight bits for
each character into two four-bit zones, with one zone
indicating the type of character, digit, punctuation
mark, lowercase letter, capital letter, and so on, and
the other zone indicating the value—that is, the
specific character within this type.

Uni code:
Unicode is a universal character encoding standard. It defines
the way individual characters are represented in text files, web
pages, and other types of documents. Unlike ASCII, which was
designed to represent only basic English characters, Unicode
was designed to support characters from all languages around
the world. The standard ASCII character set only supports 128
characters, while Unicode can support roughly 1,000,000
characters Uni code:
.

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