how and why was ascii developed and used.
2007-04-27 00:39:55 · 4 answers · asked by harry_rips_elle 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
http://www.asciitable.com/
I personally use then for special symbols like french é ç è
or when you get a key not working example 'u' you just press Alt+117 from the numpad.
2007-04-27 00:47:27 · answer #1 · answered by emms 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ASCII code was developed to have a set of standards for characters. Computers know only 1s and 0s and software is written so that particular combinations can be seen as letters. Before ASCII a definitive standard had yet to be written...so something like 000100101 could be a B on one system and a C on another. That's a big difference if you're sending computer A a text file from computer B.
2007-04-27 00:46:29 · answer #2 · answered by mlw4428 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-08-24 00:45:50 · answer #3 · answered by trudi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Search www.wikipedia.org for: ASCII code
2007-04-27 00:43:13 · answer #4 · answered by ELfaGeek 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋