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ASCII  n.  (Computers)
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The American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a code consisting of a set of 128 7-bit combinations used in digital computers internally, for display purposes, and for exchanging data between computers. It is very widely used, but because of the limited number of characters encoded must be supplemented or replaced by other codes for encoding special symbols or words in languages other than English. Also used attributively; as, an ASCII file.
Synonyms: American Standard Code for Information Interchange.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"ASCII" Quotes from Famous Books



... book contains many characters not displayed by ASCII or iso-8859-1 (Latin1) character sets. In the text file these characters have been denoted by enclosing explanatory text within square brackets. Two of the more commonly occurring such characters are the oe-ligature (denoted by [oe] or [OE]) and a-macron (denoted by [a]. Some, but not all, of the ...
— Essentials of Diseases of the Skin • Henry Weightman Stelwagon

... In this ASCII version, accents are omitted, and the Greek and Arabic scripts have been either transliterated or elided, with a note like [Arabic]. Please see the UTF-8 version of ...
— The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany • Arthur F. J. Remy

... letters are "c", "g", "h", "j" and "s" with circumflexes (or "hats", as Esperantists fondly call them), and "u" with a breve. Zamenhof himself suggested that where the diacritical letters caused difficulty, one could instead use "ch", "gh", "hh", "jh", "sh" and "u". A plain ASCII file is one such place; there are no ASCII codes for Esperanto's ...
— A Complete Grammar of Esperanto • Ivy Kellerman



Words linked to "ASCII" :   ASCII character set, computer code, American Standard Code for Information Interchange, ASCII text file, ASCII control character, computer science, ASCII character, computing, code



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