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ASCII

noun

(computer science) a code for information exchange between computers made by different companies; a string of 7 binary digits represents each character; used in most microcomputers. Synonym: American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

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"ASCII" Quotes from Famous Books

... ascii character set. The ascii character set does not include accented characters. All accented characters are shown with a 4 character representation of that character, such as [a] for an a with a macron over it. For a full list of these characters, ...

— A Manual of Pronunciation - For Practical Use in Schools and Families • Otis Ashmore

... it. The author used a few Greek words, which do not scan, and I have entered those manually using Symbol font for the rtf file, but substituted normal characters for the plain txt file and indicated [Greek text] where appropriate. The English pound symbol cannot be expressed in ASCII, so 25 pounds is rendered as 25L. Words printed in italics for emphasis are here rendered with underscores ...

— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes

... you will see words or phrases with (underscore) on either side, such as this. These were in italics in the original, but as ascii does not allow for formatting italics, they have been changed ...

— Jack Sheppard - A Romance • William Harrison Ainsworth

... a note at the end of this document that details the adaptations made to this work to fit it into plain ASCII text] ...

— The Kingdom of God is within you • Leo Tolstoy

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