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herbie477
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| What does the phrase American Standard Code for Information Interchange mean? I came across it several times, so I thought it would be best to ask you guys here, so that I could clear some things in my head I know that lot of problems come from misunderstanding some basic things, so I wanted to prevent it from happening. |
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ambrose855
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| Posted: 01/26/11 - 02:53 Post subject: |
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| American Standard Code for Information Interchange or abbreviated ASCII is a characters code based on English language.It is used in almost all devices that are dealing with texts , computers in particullary.Many charatter codes nowadays are based on ASCII .It includes 128 characters, out of which more than 30 are not printable. It was first used for commercial use in 1963. It included many control characters, such as control c, control alt etc, many of which you already know. Every character can be set to binary form,so it is easily understood by the system.There are many articles you canr ead about this, on some web encyclopedias, if you would like to find out more. |
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jackrobert
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| Posted: 03/06/12 - 11:31 Post subject: |
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| The American Standard Code for Information Interchange pronunciation:ˈæski/ ass-kee is a character-encoding scheme originally based on the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text. Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII, though they support many more characters than ASCII does. |
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