How is text represented through ACII?

Answer 1

ACII (Alphabet code for Information Interchange) code contains all the basic characters available on the ACII keyboard. For example, The ACII Indian code and keyboard accommodates the requirements for the 10 Indian scripts: Assamese, Bengali, Devanagri, Gujrati, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu. The basic characters are ordered such that direct sorting gives results, which are almost the same as that for any of the scripts. The ACII codes have to be converted to ISFOC for display purpose. This is done through an ISFA algorithm for the selected script. An ACII text can be displayed in any of the scripts. Transliteration to another script can be achieved by merely selecting that script. ACII code is used in communication media, like telex, for optimal transfer of text. ALP word processor uses the ACII code internally to allow proper editing at alphabetic level and unique representation of spellings.
The existing window applications are unable to handle ACII directly, as it requires an intelligent algorithm for handling the display. They can, however handle the ISFOC codes, which were made for this purpose. Thus, conversion is necessary between ACII and ISFOC whenever text has to be transferred from ALP to a window application. It is possible to type ISFOC text directly within a windows application using the ACII keyboard. This is done through a custom keyboard driver who does ACII to ISFOC conversion internally.

Answer 2

I think you mean ASCII, which stands for the American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Every symbol is represented by a short code. It currently defines codes for 128 characters although it does get updated periodically. The codes can be held in various forms including Decimal, Octal, Hex and Binary. The codes for A in each of these formats are: 065, 101, 041 and 01000001 respectively.