ASCII
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Not to be confused with MS
Windows-1252 or other types of
Extended ASCII.
This article is about the character encoding. For other uses, see
ASCII (disambiguation).
ASCII chart from a 1972 printer manual (b1 is the least significant bit).
ASCII (
i/ˈæski/ ass-kee), abbreviated from
American Standard Code for Information Interchange,
[1] is a
character-encoding scheme (the
IANA prefers the name
US-ASCII[2]). 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 additional characters. ASCII was the most common character encoding on the World Wide Web until December 2007, when it was surpassed by
UTF-8, which is fully backward compatible to ASCII.
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