ASCII, or American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard used to represent text in computers and other devices that use text.
Developed in the early 1960s, ASCII assigns a unique numerical value to each character, allowing for easy data transmission and storage.
It originally included 128 characters, encompassing the English alphabet (both uppercase and lowercase), numerals, punctuation marks, and various control characters. While primarily designed for the English language, ASCII has laid the groundwork for more advanced encoding systems, such as UTF-8, that support a broader range of characters from different languages.
Its simplicity and efficiency have made ASCII a fundamental component of computer science and data processing, facilitating communication across various platforms and technologies.
This file be opened and read by standard text editor programs (for example, Notepad or Simple Text) on almost any type of computer. Also referred to as “plain text files”. Examples: documents saved in ASCII format within word processors like Microsoft Word or WordPerfect; e-mail messages created by a program like Outlook; or HTML files.
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