ascii

/ˈæski/

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ADJ.

developed, plain, racist

The old computer system could only display plain ASCII text files without any formatting.

VERB + ASCII

exchange, make, message, put, replies

The two computers exchange ASCII messages to communicate with each other.

ASCII + NOUN

characters, e, g, number

The ASCII characters include letters, numbers, and special symbols used in computing.

PREP.

from, in, into

The text file was converted from ascii to Unicode format.

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Acronym of American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

Thus, to translate an EBCDIC message into an ASCII one we need a table with 256 one-byte entries. In each position we put the ASCII code that corresponds to that EBCDIC entry.

In 1960 American Standard Code for Information Exchange (ASCII) was developed from telegraphic codes.

name

Alternative letter-case form of ASCII.

The input text arrives as a sequence of ascii characters, which can be of any length.

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Thus, to translate an EBCDIC message into an ASCII one we need a table with 256 one-byte entries. In each position we put the ASCII code that corresponds to that EBCDIC entry.

Wiktionary

In 1960 American Standard Code for Information Exchange (ASCII) was developed from telegraphic codes.

Wiktionary

The input text arrives as a sequence of ascii characters, which can be of any length.

Wiktionary

Please ensure you always include a link-back in your replies. ">>" in plain ASCII + number (e.g. >>1).

Tatoeba · #328302

Inverted exclamation and question marks were invented by the Royal Spanish Academy to make ASCII look racist.

Tatoeba · #873963

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