In Computing, What is ASCII?

In Computing, What is ASCII?

ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange

This is the standard for encoding text documents on computers and other devices that use text.  Most current computer encoding text are based on ASCII, but they also included many other characters.

Every number, letter, or punctuation symbol in ASCII has a corresponding number or "ASCII" code.  The character for the number 1 has the "ASCII" code 49, capital letter A has the code 65, and the blank space has the code 32.  The ASCII system allows computers to store and use characters as numbers.  And also allows other computers to recognize characters that use the same ASCII system.

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