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The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (pronounced "ASS-key") is a common file format for text, very simple and thus readable by virtually every text editing program out there.
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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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Revision as of 12:40, 18 August 2010

ASCII

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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