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ASCII (/ ˈ æ s k iː / ⓘ ASS-kee), [3]: 6 an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. . ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devic
The KCharSelect character mapping tool shown displaying a subset of the Unicode Mathematical Operators The Unicode logo. Unicode input is method to add a specific Unicode character to a computer file; it is a common way to input characters not directly supported by a physical keyboard.
In the ASCII standard, the numbers 0-31 and 127 are assigned to control characters, for instance, code point 7 is typed by Ctrl+G. While some (most?) applications would insert a bullet character • (code point 7 on code page 437), some would treat this identical to Ctrl+G which often was a command for the program. [citation needed]
Midnight Commander using box-drawing characters in a terminal emulator. Box-drawing characters, also known as line-drawing characters, are a form of semigraphics widely used in text user interfaces to draw various geometric frames and boxes.
The intended use [2] when these characters were added to Unicode was to produce true superscripts and subscripts so that chemical and algebraic formulas could be written without markup.
Portable bitmap ASCII 50 34 0A: P4␊ 0 pbm Portable bitmap binary 50 32 0A: P2␊ 0 pgm Portable Gray Map ASCII 50 35 0A: P5␊ 0 pgm Portable Gray Map binary 50 33 0A: P3␊ 0 ppm Portable Pixmap ASCII 50 36 0A: P6␊ 0 ppm Portable Pixmap binary D7 CD C6 9A: ×ÍÆš: 0 wmf Windows Metafile: 67 69 6D 70 20 78 63 66: gimp xcf: 0 xcf XCF (file ...
Microsoft's Shift JIS variant is known simply as "Code page 932" on Microsoft Windows, however this is ambiguous as IBM's code page 932, while also a Shift JIS variant, lacks the NEC and NEC-selected double-byte vendor extensions which are present in Microsoft's variant (although both include the IBM extensions) and preserves the 1978 ordering of JIS X 0208.
The phrase ANSI character set has no well-defined meaning and has been used to refer to the following, among other things: . Windows code pages, a collection of 8-bit character sets compatible with ASCII but incompatible with each other, especially those code pages that are partly compatible with ISO-8859, most commonly Windows Latin 1