ASCII

World-wide standard for the code numbers assigned to each key on the keyboard. ASCII text does not include formatting and therefore can be exchanged and read by most computer systems.

American Standard Code for Information Interchange computer character set (text and symbols) that enables transfer of text and data between different computing systems. This international standard provides only very plain text without options for font modifications. For example, files from word processors such as Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, and Word Star often cannot be imported to hypertext or hypermedia software without conversion to ASCII code (most word processors will change files to ASCII "text" files). The downside is that nearly all formatting and font variations are lost in ASCII conversions such that imported ASCII text may have to be re-formatted line by line and altered for font preferences. Very few software alternatives have "filters" that import word processor files directly without having to convert to ASCII codes, although many are now adding rich-text format (RTF) utilities. In hypertext authoring, choice of a hypertext software option should include a question concerning whether "filters" are available for avoidance of ASCII text conversions. (See alsoANSI , Internet Messaging , and Rich-text format )

(American Standard Code for Information Interchange) -- 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, etc. There are 128 standard ASCII codes each of which can be represented by a 7 digit binary number: 0000000 through 1111111.

See: American Standard Code for Information Interchange

A standard character-to-number encoding widely used in the computer industry. See also: EBCDIC.

ASCII ( American Standard Code for Information Interchange ) (pronounced AS-key )A set of 128 alphanumeric and special control characters.Although now widely used to denote plain-text that is ,text without formatting and independent of any type font-ASCII is usually a dsts code now used universally in communication applications by minicomputers and personel computers to represent 128 possible character set ,the numerals 0 yo 9,punctuation marks and other non-alphanumeric characters found on a standard keyboard,plus several’’control codes’’ that denote invisible characters like the carriage return and tab.ASCII is also sometimes known as TTY,denoting its legacy in the teletype industry.