The difference can be easily discerned by using any Unicode encoder/decoder, such as the ASCII Smuggler. Rehberger created the tool for converting the invisible range of Unicode characters into ...

And if you want to get your hands dirty with Unicode glyphs, check out [Roman Czyborra]’s tools here, which are simple command line tools that let you easily experiment using ASCII art.

EBCDIC Code(s) The ASCII code discussed above was quickly adopted by the majority of American computer manufacturers, and was eventually turned into an international standard (see also the discussions ...

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.