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| − | ASCII | + | The '''American Standard Code for Information Interchange''' (ASCII) is a character-encoding scheme based on the ordering of the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text. It was a standard for many years. |
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| + | ASCII has the potential for 128 characters, 33 non printing and 94 printing. This was a fixed 7 byte system. It was difficult to use with written language systems that use 100s or 1000s of characters. | ||
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| + | Moodle uses [[UTF-8]], which is backward compatible with ASCII. | ||
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| + | ==See also== | ||
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| + | *[[Wikipedia:ASCII]] for a long defination. | ||
Revision as of 13:31, 28 November 2009
The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is a character-encoding scheme based on the ordering of the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text. It was a standard for many years.
ASCII has the potential for 128 characters, 33 non printing and 94 printing. This was a fixed 7 byte system. It was difficult to use with written language systems that use 100s or 1000s of characters.
Moodle uses UTF-8, which is backward compatible with ASCII.
See also
- Wikipedia:ASCII for a long defination.
