Mini:ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII), ˈæski ASK-ee,[1] is a character encoding based on the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that work with text. Most modern character encodings — which support many more characters than did the original — have a historical basis in ASCII.
Work on ASCII began in 1960. The first edition of the standard was published in 1963,[2] a major revision in 1967, and the most recent update in 1986. It currently defines codes for 128 characters: 33 are non-printing, mostly obsolete control characters that affect how text is processed, and 94 are printable characters (excluding the space).
[edit] External links
- ASCII-Table and -Charconverter
- A history of ASCII, its roots and predecessors by Tom Jennings, October 29 2004 (accessed December 17 2005)
- A pronunciation guide for ASCII characters
- Another Printable ASCII Table
- ANSI INCITS 4-1986 (R2002) Information Systems – Coded Character Sets – 7-Bit American National Standard Code for Information Interchange (7-Bit ASCII)
- ASCII to 8-bit binary converter and source code
- ASCII to ASCII CODE converter and source code
- ASCII Chart, how to send documents "in ASCII", etc
- Convert PDF, PostScript, WMF and EMF to ASCII
[edit] References
- ↑ http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?ascii001.wav=ASCII|audio
- ↑ Brandel, Mary. 1963: The Debut of ASCII: History of the origin of the ASCII standard.
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