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| − | ASCII is a character set and codification which includes most the common English characters and symbols. It is reduced to 127 characters, which happens to be far below the amount of characters needed to suit the needs of all users around the worls. Therefore, the [[Unicode]] standard appeared. | + | ASCII is a [[character]] set and codification which includes most the common English characters and symbols. It is reduced to 127 characters, which happens to be far below the amount of characters needed to suit the needs of all users around the worls. Therefore, the [[Unicode]] standard appeared. |
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| + | ASCII standard uses exactly one [[byte]] for each character. | ||
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| + | Some extensions allow ASCII to set up to 256 characters but this bring incompatibilities between users using different extensions. | ||
More information can be found at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII Wikipedia's ASCII article]. | More information can be found at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII Wikipedia's ASCII article]. | ||
Latest revision as of 16:19, 11 November 2005
ASCII is a character set and codification which includes most the common English characters and symbols. It is reduced to 127 characters, which happens to be far below the amount of characters needed to suit the needs of all users around the worls. Therefore, the Unicode standard appeared.
ASCII standard uses exactly one byte for each character.
Some extensions allow ASCII to set up to 256 characters but this bring incompatibilities between users using different extensions.
More information can be found at Wikipedia's ASCII article.
