Definition of Us-ascii

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US-ASCII
<character> The 7-bit version of ASCII, which preceded (and is the basis for) 8-bit versions such as Latin-1MacASCII and later, even larger coded character sets such as Unicode.
US-ASCII is defined in Standard ANSI X3.4-1986, "US-ASCII. Coded Character Set - 7-Bit American Standard Code for Information Interchange".
(1998-10-18)

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Us-ascii Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries

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us-ascii
the 7-bit version of ascii, which preceded (and is the basis for) 8-bit versions such as latin-1 , macascii and later, even larger coded character sets such as unicode.
us-ascii
is defined in standard ansi x3.4-1986, "us-ascii. coded character set - 7-bit american standard code for information interchange".



Us-ascii Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries

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American Standard Code for Information Interchange
American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII), generally pronounced ask-ee ([1]), is a character encoding based on the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computerscommunications equipment, and other devices that work with text. Most modern character encodings — which support many more characters than did the original — have a historical basis in ASCII.

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