ASCII

ASCII – American Standard Code for Information Interchange. This is a standard format for encoding letters, numerals, punctuation marks, characters and symbols as numeric strings when transmitting them in electronic communications. They are used to represent the characters and symbols on a computer keyboard amongst other things. The ASCII character set consists of 128 x 7-bit characters, including the digits 0 to 9, upper and lower case English letters from A to Z and various special characters.