Computer memory saves all data in digital form. There is no way to store characters directly. Each character has its digital code equivalent: ASCII code (for American Standard Code for Information ...

There's an old engineering joke that says: “Standards are great … everyone should have one!” The problem is that – very often – everyone does. Consider the case of storing textual data inside a ...

Continuing its retro inspirations, PEACE AND AFTER latest release is centered around ASCII coding. Abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, the character encoding standard ...

The man who invented the Esperanto of the technology world enabling computers to swap information freely has died. Bob Bemer developed the Ascii coding system to standardise the way computers ...