ASCII & Unicode Character Table. 📜 What is ASCII? ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a character encoding standard that represents text in computers and electronic devices.

Unicode has overtaken ASCII as the most popular character encoding scheme on the World Wide Web, Mark Davis, Google's senior international software architect, said in a blog post.

ASCII Code(s) Towards the end of the 1950s, the American Standards Association ... When working at the type-setting table, the compositors invariably kept the capital letters and small letters in the ...