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ASCII is a character encoding standard for electronic communication that represents text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices. It has 128 code points, of which only 95 are printable characters, and it was developed in part from telegraph code and influenced by Unicode.
A comprehensive overview of the Unicode characters, covering 161 modern and historical scripts, as well as multiple symbol sets. Learn how to reference Unicode characters using numeric or entity codes, and see the control codes and special characters.
Basic Latin or C0 Controls and Basic Latin is the first block of the Unicode standard, encoding 128 characters including ASCII codes and Latin alphabet. It ranges from U+0000 to U+007F and was included in version 1.0 of Unicode.
ISO/IEC 8859-1 is a standard character encoding for the Latin alphabet, used in many languages and regions. It is the basis for some popular 8-bit character sets and the first two blocks of Unicode, but it lacks some characters for some languages.
Learn about the process of assigning numbers to graphical characters, especially the written characters of human language, allowing them to be stored, transmitted, and transformed using digital computers. Find out the history, examples, and common systems of character encoding, such as ASCII, Unicode, and UTF-8.
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) consists of more than 100 letters and diacritics. Before Unicode became widely available, several ASCII -based encoding systems of the IPA were proposed. The alphabet went through a large revision at the Kiel Convention of 1989, and the vowel symbols again in 1993. [ 1 ]
A six-bit character code is a character encoding designed for use on computers with word lengths a multiple of 6. The web page explains the types, history, and applications of six-bit codes, and shows some examples of BCD and Braille codes.
Alt code is a method of entering characters that do not have a dedicated key combination on the keyboard, using the Alt key and a numeric code. Learn about the history, usage and limitations of Alt code on Windows, MS-DOS, Unicode and other operating systems.