ASCII, short for the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding scheme that maps the English alphabet and a few other basic characters to binary code understood by ...

All of the upper- and lower-case letters in the English alphabet are represented in basic ASCII, as are standard punctuation marks like periods and exclamation marks.

Famed programmer Poul-Henning Kamp argues that programming languages are limited by their reliance on ASCII Programming languages are unnecessarily difficult to work with because they rely on the ...