ASCII CODES

Computer is a system that can only understand numbers. So because of that, to make an easier of using computer ASCII codes has been created and represents all the letters in the roman alphabet plus some additional characters. Most computers use ASCII codes to represent text, which makes it possible to transfer data from one computer to another. ASCII is pronounced "ask-ee" which stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It is a set of characters of the english alphabet. There have two types of ASCII which is Standard and Extended ASCII. Characters 0 through 127 comprise the Standard ASCII Set and characters 128 to 255 are considered to be in the Extended ASCII Set. Knowing something about ASCII can be helpful.

Standard ASCII table

* This panel is organized to be easily read in hexadecimal:

• Row numbers represent the first digit
• Column numbers represent the second one.