ASCII Character Codes
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ASCII   Character Code

The name ASCII, originally an abbreviation for "American Standard Code for Information Interchange", denotes an old character code.

Most character codes currently in use contain ASCII as their subset in some way.

ASCII has been used and is used so widely that often the word ASCII refers to "text" or "plain text" in general, even if the character code is something else! The words "ASCII file" quite often mean any text file (as opposed to a binary file).

The character code defined by the ASCII standard is the following: code values are assigned to characters consecutively in the order in which the characters are listed, starting from 32 (assigned to a blank character) and ending up with 126 (assigned to the tilde character ~). Positions 0 through 31 and 127 are reserved for control codes. They have standardized names and descriptions, but in fact their usage varies a lot.

For example, ASCII(65) = A;  ASCII(97) = a.  Here is the complete ASCII Character Code: