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    ASCII is a standard for encoding characters as numbers so computers can store text data as binary. It assigns unique numbers to common characters like 65 for 'A' and 97 for 'a'. While ASCII allows storage of basic text, it is limited to 128 characters so other encoding standards like Unicode were developed to support more languages and symbols.

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    CS50 ASCII

    Overview Key Terms


    Computers need a way of storing a variety of types of information, including text. How- • encoding
    ever, since computers can only store data as 0s and 1s, computers need a way of using • ASCII
    those 0s and 1s to represent characters in text. ASCII is a standard way of translating • ASCII table
    characters to and from sequences of binary digits that computers can understand.

    ASCII Encoding Standard


    65 A
    In order to represent characters as numbers, a character encod-
    ing standard is used, which gives common characters a unique
    66 B number to identify them. ASCII is a common encoding stan-
    dard, which computers use in order to store text-based data. In
    the standard, the number 65 corresponds to the capital letter
    67 C ‘A’. Thus, if a computer wanted to store the capital letter ‘A’, it
    would need to store the number 65 in binary (which happens to
    be 1000001). The next 25 values in the ASCII encoding standard
    89 Y represent the other 25 letters, in order: so 66 represents ‘B’, 67
    represents ‘C’, and so on.

    90 Z Lowercase letters also have numerical representations in ASCII.


    The lowercase letter ‘a’ is represented by the number 97, ‘b’ is
    represented by 98, and so on. Thus, for a computer to store the
    lowercase letter ‘a’, it would need to store the number 97 in binary,
    97 a which is 1100001. Note that this binary number differs from the
    binary representation of capital ‘A’ by just one bit: the value in the
    32s place. This is because, in ASCII, lowercase letters are always
    98 b represented as numbers 32 greater than their respective upper-
    case letters. As a result, letters can easily be switched from lower-
    case to uppercase or vice versa just by switching a single bit—the
    121 y one in the 32s place—to 1 or 0 ( 1 for lowercase, 0 for uppercase).

    There’s no reason why ASCII has to use these exactly values:


    122 z ultimately, the decision as to what number maps to which letter is
    arbitrary. What’s important is that the standard is consistent: any
    computer can read and understand the numbers the same way.
    ASCII’s Limits
    ASCII is frequently represented on an ASCII table: which is just a table that shows all possible ASCII characters,
    and which numbers correspond to them.

    The original ASCII table represents all characters using just 7 bits: which means that there are 27, or 128, possible
    characters that can be represented in ASCII. Several extensions to ASCII exist which add an 8th bit, allowing for
    a total of 256 possible characters to be represented. Since there are only 52 letters, this means that ASCII has
    space to represent other types of characters: like punctuation, numbers, and some basic symbols (like the $ sign
    or the % sign).

    However, event with 8-bit ASCII encoding, there are still a lot of characters that can’t be represented, because
    there are more than 256 possible characters. For example, many mathematical symbols and characters in oth-
    er languages do not fit into the standard ASCII table. As a result, other character encoding standards exist that
    have far more possible character options: Unicode, for example, is a character encoding standard that allows for
    more than 1 million possible characters to be represented. The first 128 characters in Unicode are identical to the
    128 characters in ASCII, which makes them compatible with one another.

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