ASCII
E23922
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.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ASCII canonical | 10 |
| American Standard Code for Information Interchange | 4 |
| 7-bit ASCII | 1 |
| ISO 646 | 1 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character encoding standard
ⓘ
character set ⓘ |
| abbreviationOf |
ASCII
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
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 |
ASCII
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
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
ⓘ
surface form:
ANSI X3.4
|
| supportsLanguage | English ⓘ |
| usedFor |
data interchange
ⓘ
text representation in communication equipment ⓘ text representation in computers ⓘ |
| usesBitWidth | 7-bit ⓘ |
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
ISO 646
this entity surface form:
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
this entity surface form:
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
subject surface form:
American Standards Association
subject surface form:
American Standards Association
this entity surface form:
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
subject surface form:
ASCII
this entity surface form:
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
subject surface form:
VT100
this entity surface form:
7-bit ASCII