ASCII

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ASCII is a widely used character encoding standard that represents text in computers and other devices using 7-bit numerical codes for letters, digits, punctuation, and control characters.


Statements (48)
Predicate Object
instanceOf character encoding standard
character set
abbreviationOf American Standard Code for Information Interchange
basedOn teleprinter codes
category 7-bit character encoding
characterEncodingType single-byte encoding
codePointRange 0–127
definesCodePoints 128
DELCodePoint 127
designedFor computers
telecommunications equipment
doesNotSupport accented Latin letters
non-Latin scripts
firstPublishedYear 1963
fullName American Standard Code for Information Interchange
hasControlCharacter DEL
hasControlCharacterRange 0–31
includes BEL control character
ESC control character
NUL control character
basic punctuation characters
carriage return control character
control characters
digits 0–9
lowercase Latin letters a–z
newline control character
printable characters
space character
tab control character
uppercase Latin letters A–Z
influenced ISO 646
UTF-8
Unicode
extended ASCII encodings
isSubsetOf UTF-8
Unicode
mostSignificantBit 0
printableCharacterRange 32–126
revisedYear 1967
1968
standardizedBy ANSI
ASA
standardNumber ANSI X3.4
supportsLanguage English
usedFor data interchange
text representation in communication equipment
text representation in computers
usesBitWidth 7-bit

Referenced by (4)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Basic Latin
Basic Latin ("ISO 646")
encodingBasisFor
ASCII ("American Standard Code for Information Interchange")
abbreviationOf
ASCII ("American Standard Code for Information Interchange")
fullName

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