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ASCII

ASCII is the acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. As the full name implies, this is a standardized character code set used for the transmission of information. The ASCII character set consists of only 7-bit characters, thus only 128 individual characters. Due to this limitation, ASCII is unable to represent languages other than English, that would require an 8-bit character set. Most text editors use either ASCII or ISO Latin as their character set.

URLs:

Yahoo! - ASCII art: Index of sites which use ASCII characters to create images
Yahoo - ASCII standards: Listings of the standards information for ASCII
HTML ASCII: A table of ASCII codes

W3E References:

ISO Latin
character set

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