ASCII is a 7-bit code placed into an 8-bit storage unit. The seven bits provide the basic set of 128 ASCII characters. The 8th bit adds storage for another 128 symbols, and these symbols vary from ...

The full character set of 7-bit ASCII. During the 1970s and early 1980s the limits of 7- and 8-bit encodings like extended ASCII (e.g. ISO 8859-1 or Latin 1) were sufficient for basic home ...