ASCII

ASCII

American Staundart Cod for Information Interchynge (ASCII), maistlins said [ˈaski] is a chairacter encodin scheme foondit on the English ABC. ASCII cods represents text in computers, communications graith, an ither devices that wirks wi text. Maist modren chairacter encodins—dealin wi mony mair chairacters—haes a historical foond in ASCII.

Wark on ASCII begoud in 1960. The first edeetion o the staundart wis setten furth in 1963,a major reveesion in 1967, an the maist recent update in 1986. Juist nou, it haes cods for 128 chairacters: 33 is nane-prentin, maistlins obsolete control chairacters that affects the wey that text is processed, an 95 is prentable chairacters.

Further readin

• "Tom Jennings". World Power Systems:Texts:Annotated history of character codes. Archived frae the original on 24 October 2006. Retrieved 6 November 2006.

Fremmit airtins

• A history o ASCII, its ruits an forebears Archived 2008-10-19 at the Wayback Machine by Tom Jennings, October 29 2004 (accessed December 17 2005)
• A pronunciation guide for ASCII characters Archived 2002-10-14 at the Wayback Machine
• Anither Printable ASCII Table Archived 2007-06-28 at the Wayback Machine
• ANSI INCITS 4-1986 (R2002) Archived 2007-06-08 at the Wayback Machine Information Systems - Coded Character Sets - 7-Bit American National Standard Code for Information Interchange (7-Bit ASCII)
• ASCII tae 8-bit binary converter an soorce code
• ASCII tae ASCII CODE converter an soorce code
• ASCII Chart, whit wey tae send documents "in ASCII", etc.
• Pit PDF, PostScript, WMF an EMF ower til ASCII
• Interactive AJAX-style ASCII (an Unicode) Decoder Table
• Online Encoder/Decoder for ASCII, HEX, Binary, Base64, etc with MD2, MD4, MD5, SHA1+2, CRC, an ither hashin algorithms Archived 2010-05-30 at the Portuguese Web Archive
• Printable ASCII Table
• The ASCII subset o Unicode
• Thochts anent the Bygane an Futur wi computer pioneer, Bob Bemer Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine