ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange. This is a character set, the set of symbols that may be represented by a computer. These symbols can be letters, digits, spaces, punctuation marks, and include non-printing, control characters. ASCII was devised for use with early telecommunication systems but proved to be ideal for computer systems and forms the basis for almost all other character sets.
Related terms
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
character set
EBCDIC
control character
non-printing character
space
digit
character data
Term sub categories
Data representation
character sets
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- symbols