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13. ASCII Table

Ian Waters1  
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Bexhill, UK
 

Using the command line, we have access to all sorts of characters and symbols. Every character displayed on the console has a corresponding character value. All of these symbols and values can be seen on an American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) table . Since computers don’t know or understand that there are different languages and since there are more languages than English in the world, there needs to be a way to represent all of the possible characters and symbols from all languages on computer systems. ASCII is ...

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