ASCII Definition/Meaning:
Abbreviation for American standard code for information interchange. A standard character
encoding scheme introduced in 1963 and used widely on many machines. It is a
7-bit code with no parity recommendation, providing 128 different bit patterns.
The
character set is shown in the table. The
control characters of ASCII include
DEL (delete)
STX (start of text)
ETX (end of text)
ACK (acknowledge)
HT (horizontal tab)
LF (line feed)
VT (vertical tab)
CR (carriage return)
NAK (negative acknowledge)
SYN (synchronous idle)
ETB (end of transmission block)
FS (file separator)
GS (group separator)
RS (record separator)
See also character set.
