ASCII Character List and Codes
Listing 256 ASCII characters and their codes. ASCII is a character encoding standard, an abbreviation for American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASCII is a character encoding standard, an abbreviation for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. ASCII was originally developed from telegraphic codes. It was created in 1963 by the "American Standards Association" Committee or "ASA", the agency changed its name in 1969 to "American National Standards Institute" or "ANSI".
ASCII is the most common character encoding standard. The ASCII code assigns numerical values to 128 characters, including the 95 printable characters that are used to represent human-readable text, and 33 non-printing characters. These include control characters such as STX (Start of Text) and ETX (End of Text), as well as various formatting characters such as CR (Carriage Return) and LF (Line Feed).
ASCII is the standard character encoding for electronic communication. It is used by computers and other devices to communicate with each other and is the most common format for text files in computing. ASCII has been superseded by Unicode and other character encoding but continues to be widely used.
ASCII was one of the first character encoding standards, developed in the early 1960s. It was based on the telegraph code used by early teleprinters and designed to allow communication between different types of equipment. ASCII was published as a standard in 1967 and has been revised several times since then. The most recent revision is ASCII-1968, which includes some additional characters such as the lowercase letters.