ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Inte

A standard single-byte character encoding scheme used for text-based data. ASCII uses designated 7-bit or 8-bit number combinations to represent either 128 or 256 possible characters. Standard ASCII uses 7 bits to represent all uppercase and lowercase letters, the numbers 0 through 9, punctuation marks, and special control characters used in U.S. English. Most current x86- based systems support the use of extended (or high’) ASCII. Extended ASCII allows the eighth bit of each character to identify an additional 128 special symbol characters

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⠀ Dictionary of Computer and Internet Terms (Vol. 1) John C. Rigdon, 2016 – 1471 c. – 66