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ASCII Table and Description

ASCII is a character encoding standard that assigns numeric codes to letters, numbers, punctuation, and control characters. Originally developed for telegraph communication, ASCII codes represent text in a format that all computers can understand as simple numbers. While the non-printing control codes are rarely used today for their original purposes, the ASCII standard remains important as it allows plain text files to be transmitted and displayed consistently across different systems without formatting issues.

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ASCII Table and Description

ASCII is a character encoding standard that assigns numeric codes to letters, numbers, punctuation, and control characters. Originally developed for telegraph communication, ASCII codes represent text in a format that all computers can understand as simple numbers. While the non-printing control codes are rarely used today for their original purposes, the ASCII standard remains important as it allows plain text files to be transmitted and displayed consistently across different systems without formatting issues.

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ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Computers can only understand numbers, so an ASCII
code is the numerical representation of a character such as 'a' or '@' or an action of some sort. ASCII was developed a long
time ago and now the non-printing characters are rarely used for their original purpose. Below is the ASCII character table
and this includes descriptions of the first 32 non-printing characters. ASCII was actually designed for use with teletypes and
so the descriptions are somewhat obscure. If someone says they want your CV however in ASCII format, all this means is
they want 'plain' text with no formatting such as tabs, bold or underscoring - the raw format that any computer can
understand. This is usually so they can easily import the file into their own applications without issues. Notepad.exe creates
ASCII text, or in MS Word you can save a file as 'text only'

Extended ASCII Codes

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