What does ASC mean?

ASCII (american standard code for information interchange Code) is a computer coding system based on Latin alphabet, which is mainly used to display modern English and other Western European languages. This is the most common information exchange standard, which is equivalent to the international standard ISO/IEC 646. ASCII was originally published as a standard type in 1967 and last updated in 1986. So far, 128 characters have been defined.

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In view of the importance of information exchange, in order to unify the coding standards of characters and symbols, so that different brands and models of computers can use the same set of standardized information exchange codes, the National Bureau of Standards of the United States has specially formulated american standard code for information interchange Code ASCII, that is, the standard code for data transmission.

In the early days, seven digits were used to represent English letters, numbers 0~9 and other symbols. Now, 8 bits are used to represent 256 different characters and symbols, which is the most common and widely used English standard code in various computer systems. Compared with ASCII code, the most widely used internal code in Chinese system is Big-5 code. ?

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