7-Bit and 8-Bit ASCII The left side of this chart shows the original 128 ASCII codes (7-bit), and the right side contains 128 more. Together, both sides make up 8-bit ASCII.

A complete list of all ASCII codes, characters, symbols and signs included in the 7-bit ASCII table and the extended ASCII table according to the Windows-1252 character set, which is a superset of ISO ...

The term itself is misleading, as the ASCII code is always seven bits, not eight. However, since the common storage element is the 8-bit byte, the term is widely used. See 7-bit ASCII and ASCII .