A 7-bit character set and character encoding, abbreviated ASCII. Based on the Roman alphabet as used in modern English, the code is employed almost universally on computing machinery
A 7-bit binary code standardized by American National Standards Institute (ANSI) for use by personal computers (PCs) and some mainframes to represent alphanumeric and graphical characters An additional bit is included to form an 8-bit character (byte)
Pronounced 'ask-ee', a code used by computers to represent alphanumeric characters and some punctuation marks Each character is represented by a 7-digit binary number, 0000000 to 1111111, giving a total character set of 128 E-mail messages sent over the Internet take ASCII form, meaning that some kind of conversion is often required
(ASCII) The primary encoding character set used in computers The current version has 7 bits per character 8-bit "words" or character codes provide a bit that can be used as a check bit to help verify that the remaining 7 bits are correct
Basic computer characters accepted by all American machines and many foreign ones
ASCII is also sometimes called TTY because of its heritage in the teletype industry ASCII is used to represent characters, numbers, and control codes It is the most commonly recognized standard among the general PC and minicomputer users
A code with seven information signals plus one parity check signal, designed for interworking between computers (i e , the transmittal of text) The most popular coding method used by computers for converting letters, numbers, punctuation and control codes with digital form
ASCII (pronounced ass-key) is the standard character set displayed by most computers; it's what you see in e-mail messages Thus the somewhat redundant phrase "plain ascii" to denote text that has no special fonts or graphics elements
The character set used by most American computers Supersets of ASCII contain non-English characters
The predominant character set encoding of present-day computers ASCII uses 7 bits for each character It does not include accented letters or any other letter forms not used in English (such as the German sharp-S or the Norwegian ae-ligature) Compare to Unicode
A standard code used in data transmission in which 128 symbols are each represented by a binary number
A standard character-to-number encoding widely used in the computer industry See also: EBCDIC [Source: RFC1392]
A coding scheme using 7 or 8 bits that assigns numeric values up to 256 characters, including letters, numerals, punctuation marks, control characters, and other symbols ASCII was developed in 1968 to standardize data transmission among disparate hardware and software systems and is built into most minicomputers and all personal computers
A set of 128 alphanumeric and special control characters ASCII files are also known as plain text files This is the de-facto world-wide standard for the code numbers used by computers to represent all the upper and lower-case Latin letters, numbers, punctuation marks, etc
A common method of numbering characters so they can be processed For instance, the letter A is number 65 It is slowly being replaced by the ANSI character set table and the use of international code pages that can display foreign characters
A standard character-to-number encoding widely used in the computer industry Plain text, Postscript files, and BinHex files are among the types of data that are transferred in ASCII format Spreadsheets, compiled programs, and graphics are transferred across the net in binary format In addition, the computer community has extended the ASCII character set so it includes control and other characters This change allowed for e-mail, "8-bit clean" data transmission, essential for the development of workstation TCP/IP applications This lets users turn their home computers into Internet hosts
A seven bit encoding scheme (8 bits including parity check) that describes a coded character set used for the iformation interchange among data processing and communication systems The character set includes control and graphical characters
(ASCII) is a code for representing English characters as numbers, with each character assigned a number from 0-127 ASCII file A text file in which each byte represents one character according to the ASCII code ASCII files are sometimes called plain text files