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ASCII

ASCII \ASCII\ n. [Acronym: American Standard Code for Information Interchange.](Computers) 1. the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a code consisting of a set of 128 7-bit combinations used in digital computers internally, for display purposes, and for exchanging data between computers. It is very widely used, but because of the limited number of characters encoded must be supplemented or replaced by other codes for encoding special symbols or words in languages other than English. Also used attributively; -- as, an ASCII file.

Syn: American Standard Code for Information Interchange. [PJC] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ASCII

1963, initialism (acronym) from "American Standard Code for Information Interchange."

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ascii

alt. (context computing English) American Standard Code for Information Interchange. n. (context computing English) American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

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ASCII

ASCII , abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard (the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) prefers the name US-ASCII). ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices. Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII, although they support many additional characters.

ASCII (disambiguation)

ASCII is the American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

ASCII may also refer to:

  • ASCII (company), Japanese publisher and magazine
  • ASCII (squat), Dutch computing project
  • ASCII, asteroid 3568 ASCII
ASCII (squat)
''For the issue with Unicode URLs called "ASCII squatting", see IDNA.

The Amsterdam Subversive Center for Information Interchange (ASCII) was a squatted communication laboratory in the Dutch city of Amsterdam. The first incarnation was formed in 1999 and based at the Herengracht. The lab then moved to the following locations: Jodenbreestraat, Kinkerstraat, Kostverlorenkade, Wibautstraat and Javastraat . ASCII became legalised when it moved into Jodenbreestraat 24 in January 2000, alongside the radical bookshop Fort van Sjakoo, but started squatting again when faced with a 900% rent increase.

The original aim was to provide a free internet work space for activists and squatters and to promote Open Source operating systems such as Linux and free software programs such as OpenOffice.org and Mozilla. Members of the collective scavenged and rebuilt computers from trash. In 2005, ASCII was involved with a plan to set up free community wireless internet access across Amsterdam. In 2006 Javastraat was evicted and the group declared a shift towards being a hacklab rather than having a physical space.

Usage examples of "ascii".

Some diacriticals in the text could not be represented in 7-bit ASCII text and have been approximated here.

The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization with EIN [Employee Identification Number] 64-6221541 Title: The Complete Memoires of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Author: Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Release Date: December, 2001 [Etext #2981] [Yes, we are about one year ahead of schedule] [Most recently updated: December 10, 2001] Edition: 11 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII The Project Gutenberg Etext of The Complete Memoires of Casanova ******This file should be named csnva11.

OR [*] The etext may be readily converted by the reader at no expense into plain ASCII, EBCDIC or equivalent form by the program that displays the etext (as is the case, for instance, with most word processors).

Rider Haggard Release Date: June, 2004 [EBook #5898] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on September 18, 2002] Edition: 10 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JESS *** Etext prepared by John Bickers, jbickers@ihug.

The other meaning for ebook is a "pirate" or unauthorized electronic edition of a book, usually made by cutting the binding off of a book and scanning it a page at a time, then running the resulting bitmaps through an optical character recognition app to convert them into ASCII text, to be cleaned up by hand.

The underlying software and hardware will become as arcane and mysterious as are the ASCII and ASSEMBLY languages to the average computer user today.

This uses ASCII characters, with end of line denoted by a carriage return followed by a line feed.

Like almost all Linux users, I depend on having all of those details hidden away in thousands of little ASCII text files, which are in turn wedged into the recesses of the Unix filesystem.

Changing anything under Linux is a matter of opening up various of those little ASCII text files and changing a word here and a character there, in ways that are extremely significant to how the system operates.

She started out with programmers’ puns, and shortly the glassy plain was littered with people named Bit and Buffer, Pinout and Ascii, Peek and Poke, Random, Cursor, String, Loop, Strikeout, Hex, and anything else she could think of.

The public defender who was assigned to Ascii stormed into the room.