page_title: ASCII
hierarchical_section_title: ASCII
caption_attribution_description: English: US-ASCII Code Chart. Scanner copied from the material delivered with TermiNet 300 impact type printer with Keyboard, February 1972, General Electric Data communication Product Dept., Waynesboro, Virginia.
context_page_description: ASCII, abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices. Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII, although they support many additional characters.
  The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority prefers the name US-ASCII for this character encoding.
  ASCII is one of the IEEE milestones.
context_section_description: ASCII (/ˈæskiː/ (listen) ASS-kee), abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices. Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII, although they support many additional characters.
  The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) prefers the name US-ASCII for this character encoding.
  ASCII is one of the IEEE milestones.
caption: ASCII chart from a pre-1972 printer manual
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