ASCII

ASCII | The American Standard Code for Information Interchange is an international agreement according to which a byte is assigned to a specific character. This agreement ensures that almost all computers work with standardized encryption. In ASCII, each character is defined by seven bits. These seven bits can be used to represent 128 different characters. The eighth bit can be used as a check bit (parity bit) or to represent a further 128 characters. The original ASCII code consists of 33 non-printable characters (control characters) and 95 printable characters.