whats is ASCII code?

Question

what is it used for? and exactly what it is?

Answer 1

ASCII

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), generally pronounced [ˈæski], is a character encoding based on the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that work with text. Most modern character encodings—which support many more characters—have a historical basis in ASCII.

ASCII was first published as a standard in 1967 and was last updated in 1986. It currently defines codes for 128 characters. 33 are non-printing, mostly obsolete control characters that affect how text is processed, and the other 95 printable characters are as follows (starting with the space character):

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?
@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_
`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~

Answer 2

ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

Answer 3

The American Standard Code for Information Interchange is a character-encoding scheme originally based on the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text. Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII, though they support many additional characters.

Answer 4

ASCII = American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

Plain text, or ASCII text (pronounced ask-ee text), can be read by every computer system, including Windows, DOS, Unix, Macintosh or any other. It can even be safely copied and pasted into the body of an e-mail message, if necessary. If you want the easiest, simplest and most reliable format, plain text is your best choice.
All documents created in programs such as NotePad and SimpleText are ASCII text.
Plain text cannot be used for images, sound files and so on.
All ASCII files end in the extension .txt. For example, your file could be saved as bird.txt, resume.txt and so forth.
Plain text format strips the special formatting instructions out of your documents. You cannot display special effects such as bold, italic, colored fonts or bullets.

Answer 5

American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It allocates a numerical value for characters of the alphabet, in a nutshell. For example, The letter 'A' has a numerical value of 65 and so on.

Answer 6

American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It is a machine language code used in computer files to be understand by the operating systems for execution puspose.

Answer 7

It stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange (http://www.asciitable.com/). It is a standard that maps numbers to characters that are recognizable by a computer (i.e. 65 = 'A'). There is a table at the link above providing a key to the mapping.

Answer 8

It is a set of English characters...hence the alphabet and some special symbols. It has since been replaced with Unicode which is the same thing but for every language.