American Standard for Information Interchange (ASCII)

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American Standard for Information Interchange (ASCII) is a method of encoding characters that is based on the order of alphabetic characters in the English language.

ASCII integer representations have printable and nonprintable subsets. Printable characters are normal characters, and nonprintable characters are characters used to represent keyboard keys, e.g., backspace, delete, and return.

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