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<strong>ASCII</strong> stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Computers can only understand numbers, so an <strong>ASCII</strong> code is the numerical<br />

representation of a <strong>character</strong> such as 'a' or '@' or an action of some sort. <strong>ASCII</strong> was developed a long time ago and now the non-printing <strong>character</strong>s<br />

are rarely used for their original purpose. Below is the <strong>ASCII</strong> <strong>character</strong> table and this includes descriptions of the first 32 non-printing <strong>character</strong>s.<br />

<strong>ASCII</strong> was actually designed for use with teletypes and so the descriptions are somewhat obscure. If someone says they want your CV however in<br />

<strong>ASCII</strong> format, all this means is they want 'plain' text with no formatting such as tabs, bold or underscoring - the raw format that any computer can<br />

understand. This is usually so they can easily import the file into their own applications without issues. Notepad.exe creates <strong>ASCII</strong> text, or in MS Word<br />

you can save a file as 'text only'<br />

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Extended <strong>ASCII</strong> Codes<br />

As people gradually required computers to understand additional <strong>character</strong>s and non-printing <strong>character</strong>s the <strong>ASCII</strong> set became restrictive. As with<br />

most technology, it took a while to get a single standard for these extra <strong>character</strong>s and hence there are few varying 'extended' sets. The most popular<br />

is presented below.<br />

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