ASCII Character Set and Encoding

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This chapter provides notes and tutorial examples on ASCII character set and encoding. Topics including introduction of ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange); listing of all ASCII characters and their encoded bytes.

What Is ASCII?

Listing of ASCII Characters and Encoded Bytes

Conclusions:

• ASCII character set contains 128 characters for English letters, numbers and some control characters.
• ASCII encoding maps each character to 1 byte with the leading bit set to 0, and other 7 bits representing the code point of the character.