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ASCII

ASCII (/ˈæski/ ⓘ ASS-kee),: 6 an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for representing a particular set of 95 (English-language–focused) printable and 33 control characters – a total of 128 code points. The set of available punctuation had significant impact on the syntax of computer languages…

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Alias(es)
ISO-IR-006, ANSI_X3.4-1968, ANSI_X3.4-1986, ISO_646.irv:1991, ISO646-US, us, IBM367, cp367
Classification
ISO/IEC 646 series
Extensions
Unicode · ISO/IEC 8859 (series) · KOI-8 · OEM (series) · Windows-125x (series)
Languages
primarily English; also supports Malay, Rotokas, Interlingua, Ido, and X-SAMPA
MIME / IANA
us-ascii
Preceded by
ITA 2, FIELDATA

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ASCII

Nodes226
Edges225
Triples210
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.00885
Components1

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ASCII

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related to Further reading · 38
ASCII → ACM, American National Standard Code, ANSI X3, Archived, Bemer, Cargill, Character Code Compatibility, Coded Character Sets, Codes Prior, Communications, Computer, December, Early Development, History, Information Interchange, JF Ptak Science Books, John, March, Mullendore, National Institute
related to Revisions · 18
ASCII → ANSI INCITS, ANSI X3, ASA X3, Display Control, Display Stations, IBM, In, INCITS, R1992, R1997, R2002, R2007, R2012, R2017, R2022, They, USAS X3, X3
related to Usage · 17
ASCII → American Telephone, Because, Bemer, Bob Bemer, Europe, His British, Hugh McGregor Ross, ITA2, Johnson, On March, Ross Code, Telegraph's TWX, TeletypeWriter, Telex, TWX, United States Federal Government, US President Lyndon
related to history · 14
ASCII → American National Standards Institute, American Standards Association's, ANSI, ASA, Baudot, Bob Bemer, IBM, In, It, May, Teletype Model, The, Work, X3
related to Bit width · 13
ASCII → Baudot, Before ASCII, CCITT, Comité Consultatif International Téléphonique, EBCDIC, FIELDATA, International Telegraph Alphabet No, ITA2, Like, The X3, This, To, Télégraphique
related to Internal organization · 12
ASCII → British, DEC SIXBIT, European, Lowercase, Many, Mechanical, Remington No, Teletype Model, The, This, Thus, To
see also · 12
ASCII → ASCII-derived, AsteroidAlt, Campaign, Collection, Computer, Extended ASCII, HTMLJargon, Input, Latin, Nickname, Unicode, Use
related to 7-bit codes · 11
ASCII → Almost, Canada, English, For, French, From, ISO, Other, United Kingdom's, United States, US
related to Control characters · 11
ASCII → Despite, Except, For, ISO, Lock-gray-alt-2, Lock-green, Lock-red-alt-2, Other, RFC, These, Wikisource-logo
related to Unicode · 11
ASCII → Even, ISO-8859-1, ISO/IEC, This, UCS, Unicode, Universal Character Set, UTF-16, UTF-32, UTF-8, While ASCII

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character characters used code control standard codes systems also line example set use encoding terminal data many text unicode first

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ASCIIAlias(es)ISO-IR-006, ANSI_X3.4-1968, ANSI_X3.4-1986, ISO_646.irv:1991, ISO646-US, us, IBM367, cp3671.00infobox
ASCIIClassificationISO/IEC 646 series1.00infobox
ASCIIExtensionsUnicode1.00infobox
ASCIIExtensionsISO/IEC 8859 (series)1.00infobox
ASCIIExtensionsKOI-81.00infobox
ASCIIExtensionsOEM (series)1.00infobox
ASCIIExtensionsWindows-125x (series)1.00infobox
ASCIIExtensionsOthers1.00infobox
ASCIILanguagesprimarily English; also supports Malay, Rotokas, Interlingua, Ido, and X-SAMPA1.00infobox
ASCIIMIME / IANAus-ascii1.00infobox
ASCIIPreceded byITA 2, FIELDATA1.00infobox
ASCIISucceeded byISO/IEC 8859, ISO/IEC 10646 (Unicode)1.00infobox

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