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ASCII is short for the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (pronounced "ASS-key")which is a encoding method for text, based on the English alphabet.
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The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (pronounced "ASS-key") is a encoding type for text, based on the English alphabet. A more universal encoding type is Unicode which allows for display of many different characters.
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A more universal encoding type is Unicode which allows for display of many different characters.
 
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Latest revision as of 18:46, 14 February 2015

ASCII is short for the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (pronounced "ASS-key")which is a encoding method for text, based on the English alphabet.

A more universal encoding type is Unicode which allows for display of many different characters.


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