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    The American Standard Code of Information Interchange (ASCII) is the most widely used coding scheme to represent data on computers. It uses 7-bit binary numbers to represent text characters, with a range of 0 to 127 to define control characters and printable characters. While ASCII is standardized across different computer systems for interoperability, the 128-255 byte range is reserved for system-specific uses or multibyte encodings like for Chinese characters which require 2 bytes each.

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    The American Standard Code of Information Interchange (ASCII) is the most widely used coding scheme to represent data on computers. It uses 7-bit binary numbers to represent text characters, with a range of 0 to 127 to define control characters and printable characters. While ASCII is standardized across different computer systems for interoperability, the 128-255 byte range is reserved for system-specific uses or multibyte encodings like for Chinese characters which require 2 bytes each.

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    Basic Introduction To ASCII

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    The American Standard Code of Information Interchange (ASCII) is the most widely used coding scheme to represent data on computers. It uses 7-bit binary numbers to represent text characters, with a range of 0 to 127 to define control characters and printable characters. While ASCII is standardized across different computer systems for interoperability, the 128-255 byte range is reserved for system-specific uses or multibyte encodings like for Chinese characters which require 2 bytes each.

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    American Standard Code of Information Interchange

    1. the most widely used coding scheme to represent data


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    Range of a byte= 0(0000 0000)~255(1111 1111) Range of ASCII= 0(0000 0000)~128(0111 1111)

    2. Only half of the range used by ASCII 3. defination of ASCII is standardized and common among diff.
    computers, i.e. PCs, Macs, Linuxs...

    4. The rest, 128(1000 0000)-255(1111 1111), is reserved for different


    computers

    5. Chinese char. cost 2 bytes

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