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ASCII  n.  (Computers)
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The American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a code consisting of a set of 128 7-bit combinations used in digital computers internally, for display purposes, and for exchanging data between computers. It is very widely used, but because of the limited number of characters encoded must be supplemented or replaced by other codes for encoding special symbols or words in languages other than English. Also used attributively; as, an ASCII file.
Synonyms: American Standard Code for Information Interchange.





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"ASCII" Quotes from Famous Books



... [ROCKETBOOK]. The other meaning for ebook is a "pirate" or unauthorized electronic edition of a book, usually made by cutting the binding off of a book and scanning it a page at a time, then running the resulting bitmaps through an optical character recognition app to convert them into ASCII text, to be cleaned up by hand. These books are pretty buggy, full of errors introduced by the OCR. A lot of my colleagues worry that these books also have deliberate errors, created by mischievous ...
— Ebooks: Neither E, Nor Books • Cory Doctorow
... mistake and a false reading, the common version has "the pains of death," instead of "the chains of the under world." The sense requires the latter. Besides, numerous manuscripts read [non ASCII characters]. See, furthermore, Rosenmuller's thorough criticism in loc. Likewise see Robinson's New ...
— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger
... Original text read R1 with a degree symbol after the 1. For this ascii version this has been rendered R1^o. As the footnote attached to that paragraph references reinforcements, it is presumed that this is some type of error for "RI'd", or ...
— Journal of an American Prisoner at Fort Malden and Quebec in the War of 1812 • James Reynolds
... bond. subscripted . superscripted . {} mark non-ascii characters. "Emphasis" italics have a * mark. @@@ marks a reference to internal page numbers. Comments and guessed at characters in {braces} need stripped/fixed. Footnotes have not been re-numbered, however, () are moved to EOParagraph. The footnotes that have duplicate ...
— Bygone Beliefs • H. Stanley Redgrove
... "" and "" each appear as two letters, you have the ASCII-7 version of this file. This should only be used if your text reader ...
— Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley (1782) • Edmond Malone
... text file comes in several versions. The unicode/utf-8 version (file name ending in -0) is "best" and should be used if your text reader or browser can handle it. The latin-1 version (file name ending in 8) is similar but not as precise. The ASCII-7 version (file name without extra numeral) should be used only as ...
— Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines • Henry Vizetelly
... comes in two forms: Latin-1 and ASCII-7. Use the one that works best on your text reader. In the Latin-1 version, French words like "etude" have accents and "ae" is a single letter. If you see any garbage in this paragraph and can't ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume IV. • Aphra Behn


Words linked to "ASCII" :   computing, ASCII character set, American Standard Code for Information Interchange, ASCII character, computer code, code


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