Tuesday, November 22, 2011

What is the American Standard Code for Information Interchange?

ASCII. The organization that determines how information is translated into data for use in computers. For example, they developed standard tables that convert letter, number and punctuation characters in a languae set into computer key codes.|||That would be good old ASCII, or one of the older character encoding schemes. It simply maps characters you type on your keyboard (like, the space bar) with numbers (like 32 decimal for space bar) so they can be stored and manipulated internally by the computer...





I'm sure Wikipedia, for example, will be more than happy to provide more in-depth explanations.|||ASCII





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