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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange. This is a character set, the set of symbols that may be represented by a computer. These symbols can be letters, digits, spaces, punctuation marks, and include non-printing, control characters. ASCII was devised for use with early telecommunication systems but proved to be ideal for computer systems and forms the basis for almost all other character sets.

Related terms
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)character setEBCDICcontrol characternon-printing characterspacedigitcharacter data
Term sub categories
Data representation › character sets
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