Ascii

Please ensure you always include a link-back in your replies. ">>" in plain ASCII + number (e.g. >>1).

"ASCII quotes" are a substitute character for the “real” quotes that vary from language to language, and the advent of Unicode have rendered ASCII quotes obsolete.

Inverted exclamation and question marks were invented by the Royal Spanish Academy to make ASCII look racist.

Thus, to translate an EBCDIC message into an ASCII one we need a table with 256 one-byte entries. In each position we put the ASCII code that corresponds to that EBCDIC entry.

In 1960 American Standard Code for Information Exchange (ASCII) was developed from telegraphic codes.

The input text arrives as a sequence of ascii characters, which can be of any length.