ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), generally pronounced [ˈæski], is a character encoding based on the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that work with text. Most modern character encodings have a historical basis in ASCII. ASCII was first published as a standard in 1967 and was last updated in 1986. It currently defines codes for 33 non-pr ...

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• ASCII - Overview
• ASCII - History
• ASCII - ASCII control characters
• ASCII - ASCII printable characters
• ASCII - Structural features
• ASCII - Aliases for ASCII
• ASCII - Variants of ASCII

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ASCII, ASCII - Overview, ASCII - History, ASCII - ASCII control characters, ASCII - ASCII printable characters, ASCII - Structural features, ASCII - Aliases for ASCII, ASCII - Variants of ASCII

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As computer technology spread throughout the world, different standards bodies and corporations developed many variations of ASCII in order to facilitate the expression of non-English languages that used Roman-based alphabets. One could class some of these variations as "ASCII extensions", although some mis-apply that term to cover all variants, including those that do not preserve ASCII's character-map in the 7-bit range. ISO 646 (1972), the first attempt to remedy the pro-English-language bias, created compatibility problems, since ...

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ASCII, ASCII - Overview, ASCII - History, ASCII - ASCII control characters, ASCII - ASCII printable characters, ASCII - Structural features, ASCII - Aliases for ASCII, ASCII - Variants of ASCII

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ASCII reserves the first 32 codes (numbers 0–31 decimal) for control characters: codes originally intended not to carry printable information, but rather to control devices (such as printers) that make use of ASCII. For example, character 10 represents the "line feed" function (which causes a printer to advance its paper), and character 27 represents the "escape" key often found in the top left corner of common keyboards. Code 127 (all seven bits on), another special character, equates to "delete" or "rubout". Though its function re ...

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ASCII, ASCII - Overview, ASCII - History, ASCII - ASCII control characters, ASCII - ASCII printable characters, ASCII - Structural features, ASCII - Aliases for ASCII, ASCII - Variants of ASCII

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_ ____ ____ ___ ___ _ / \ / ___| / ___|_ _|_ _| __ _ _ __| |_ / _ \ \___ \| | | | | | / _` | '__| __| / ___ \ ___) | |___ | | | | | (_| | | | |_ /_/ \_\____/ \____|___|___| \__,_|_| \__| ASCII art, an artistic medium relying primarily on computers for presentation, consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable characters defined by ASCII). The term is also used more loosely to refer to text based art in general. They can be created with any text editor, and are ...

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• ASCII art - Types and examples of ASCII art
• ASCII art - Methods for generating ASCII art
• ASCII art - Non Fixed-Width ASCII
• ASCII art - Other text based art
• ASCII art - IBM PC
• ASCII art - Shift jis
• ASCII art - Unicode

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1. Generally speaking, the term alphanumeric refers to anything that consists of only letters and numbers. For example, "ABC123" is an alphanumeric expression. The term may also refer to a device that handles such expressions (contrary to letters-only or numbers-only processing equipment). In telecommunication and computer science, an alphanumeric entity is specifically defined as a character string that contains only letters and digits (and sometimes a few other characters, typically punctuation marks). 2. Frequently used phrase from the 1994 television show ReBoot It is a slang ph ...

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The C0 and C1 control code sets define control codes for use in text. C0, originally defined in ISO 646, defines codes in the range 00HEX-1FHEX. C1, originally defined in ISO 6429, defines codes in the range 80HEX-9FHEX. The C0 codes are used with ASCII and most encodings based on it. The C1 codes were included in the ISO-8859-n series of encodings and Unicode but are rarely used. C0 and C1 control codes - C0 ASCII and derivatives. C0 and C1 ...

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• C0 and C1 control codes - C0 ASCII and derivatives
• C0 and C1 control codes - C1 ISO-8859 and unicode

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Within the field of geology, Bowen's reaction series is the work of the petrologist, Norman L. Bowen who was able to explain why certain types of minerals tend to be found together while others are almost never associated with one another. He experimented in the early 1900's with powdered rock material that was heated until it melted and then allowed to cool to a certain temperature whereupon he observed the types of minerals that formed in the rocks produced. He repeated this process with progressively cooler temperatures and the res ...

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• Bowen's reaction series - ASCII rendering of Bowen's reaction series:
• Bowen's reaction series - External link

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UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode created by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike. It is able to represent any universal character in the Unicode standard, yet is backwards compatible with ASCII. For this reason, it is steadily becoming the preferred encoding for email, web pages, and other places characters are stored or streamed. UTF-8 uses one to four bytes (strictly, octets) per character, depending on the Unicode symbol. For example, only one byte is needed to encode the 1 ...

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• UTF-8 - Description
• UTF-8 - Modified UTF-8
• UTF-8 - Rationale behind UTF-8's mechanics
• UTF-8 - Overlong forms invalid input and security considerations
• UTF-8 - Advantages and disadvantages
• UTF-8 - History

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In computing, a control character or non-printing character, is a code point (a number) in a character set that does not in itself represent a written symbol. All entries in the ASCII table below 32 (technically the C0 control code set) are of this kind, including BEL (which is intended to cause an audible signal in the receiving terminal), SYN (which is a synchronization signal), and ENQ (a signal that is intended to trigger a response at the receiving end, to see if it is still present). The Unicode standard has added many ne ...

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• Control character - In ASCII
• Control character - How control characters map to keyboards
• Control character - The design purpose
• Control character - Printing and Display control
• Control character - Data structuring
• Control character - Transmission control
• Control character - Miscellaneous

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Bases Base 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,16, 20, 24, 26, 27, 30, 32, 36, 60, 64 Base 64 literally means a positional numbering system using a base of 64. It is the largest power of two base that can be represented using only printable ASCII characters. This has led to its use as a transfer encoding for email among other things. All well-known variants that are known by the name Base64 use the characters A–Z, a–z, and 0–9 in that order for the first 62 digits but ...

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• Base64 - MIME
• Base64 - UTF-7
• Base64 - IRCu
• Base64 - URL Applications
• Base64 - Other applications
• Base64 - Resources

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In communications, a code is a rule for converting a piece of information (for example, a letter, word, or phrase) into another form or representation, not necessarily of the same sort. In communications and information processing, encoding is the process by which a source (object) performs this conversion of information into data, which is then sent to a receiver (observer), such as a data processing system. Decoding is the reverse process of converting data, which has been sent by a source, into information understanda ...

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• Code - Codes in communication used for brevity
• Code - An example: the ASCII code
• Code - Codes to detect or correct errors e.g. in storage or transmission
• Code - Codes and acronyms
• Code - Gödel code

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BSD Daemon is the BSD operating system's mascot. Many folks have asked about the BSD daemon's name. The proper name is just "BSD Daemon". A Walnut Creek advertiser wrongfully named the BSD daemon as "Chuck", maybe because of his shoes. Those insisting on a name call him "Beastie," likely a phonetic pronunciation of BSD (BeeS Dee). The BSD Daemon is a daemon and usually carries a trident to symbolize the daemon's forking of processes. The copyright of the BSD Daemon is held by Marshall Kirk McKusick who tries to ensure th ...

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• BSD Daemon - ASCII image

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Code page is the traditional IBM term used for a specific character encoding table: a mapping in which a sequence of bits, usually a single octet representing integer values 0 through 255, is associated with a specific character. Code page - Background. A few code pages use more than 8 bits per character and thus encode more than 256 characters. The term cmap (character map) is used in technical documentation on Macintosh platforms. Although IBM created and maintained many code pages, the term ...

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• Code page - Background
• Code page - Relationship to ASCII
• Code page - Partial list of IBM code pages
• Code page - Other code pages of note
• Code page - Microsoft code pages
• Code page - Private code pages

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JavE stands for Java Ascii Versatile Editor. It is a GUI tool for drawing ASCII art. Features (from the JavE Website): Freehand painting by mouse FIGlet support - 195 fonts included GIF/JPG/BMP to ASCII conversion with multiple options Crash recovery - edited documents can be recovered by JavE when starting the next time Free shape selection tool Easy textbox editing (borders, move, rescale) Extendable clipart library Export for multiple purposes (HTML, Java/C++/C/... comment) move/cop ...

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• JavE - External link

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Calculator spelling is a technique of spelling words using a calculator equipped with seven-segment displays of different technologies, including but not limited to LCD, VFD, LED, Panaplex, etc. Spelling with Nixie tubes won't produce good readability of the upside-down characters, while spelling with dot-matrix displays, as well as with fourteen-segment and sixteen-segment displays is so o ...

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• Calculator spelling - Description
• Calculator spelling - Using four-function calculators for spelling
• Calculator spelling - Using scientific calculators for spelling

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Bell character is an ASCII control character, code 7 (^G). When it is sent to a printer or a terminal, nothing is printed, but an audible signal is emitted instead. Terminal emulator windows often flash briefly to show the user where the alert occurred. In the C programming language, the bell character is represented as '\a' ("alert" or "audible"). See also. beep ...

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Computer painting is the task of using a personal computer to create images using raster, vector or bitmap based editing with computer graphics programs such as CorelDraw, Photoshop and GIMP. Another type of computer painting is ASCII art. See also. 2D computer graphics; Direct painting Bitmap graphics editor ...

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Remorse was established in late 1994 by two IBM-PC scene ASCII artists from San José, California who went by the pseudonyms Necromancer and Necronite. While text-based art in a general sense is nothing new to speak of, Remorse is considered to be one of the earliest organized bodies created solely for creating ASCII art, second only to Katharsis (KTS). In that respect, Katharsis was to ASCII what Aces of ANSI Art (AAA) was to ANSI, so one could argue ...

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Remorse ASCII, Remorse ASCII - History, Remorse ASCII - Present day, Remorse ASCII - Member List, Remorse ASCII - Founders, Remorse ASCII - Leaders, Remorse ASCII - Senior staff, Remorse ASCII - Active artists, Remorse ASCII - Mascot, Remorse ASCII - Alumni, Remorse ASCII - Trivia

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ISO/IEC 646 and its predecessor ASCII, ANS X3.4, largely endorses existing practice regarding character encodings in the telecommunications industry's network. During the 1960s, there was debate regarding whether character encoding standards (at either the national or international levels) for computers should follow 1) existing practice in the telecommunications industry (which was largely paper-tape based, but which was commonly transmitted on-line digitally over wires) or, conversely, 2) existing practice in the punched-card portio ...

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ISO/IEC 646, ISO/IEC 646 - History, ISO/IEC 646 - National variants, ISO/IEC 646 - Variants of ASCII that are not ISO 646

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