ASCII

See also: ascii

English

Alternative forms

• ascii

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæski/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -æski

Proper noun

ASCII

1. (computing) Initialism of American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
   • 2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 127:

     In 1960 American Standard Code for Information Exchange (ASCII) was developed from telegraphic codes.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• ASCII art
• ASCIIbetical
• ASCIIfy
• extended ASCII
• PETSCII
• pure ASCII text

Translations

Translations

• Esperanto: Askio

See also

• extended ASCII
• 7-bit
• EBCDIC
• Unicode
• UTF-7
• UTF-8
• UTF-16
• Appendix:Unicode

• The official ISO standards document, standard 006.

Anagrams

• Isiac

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English ASCII.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈas.ki/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈas.ki/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈaʃ.ki/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈaʃ.ki/

Proper noun

ASCII m

1. (computing) ASCII (a 7-bit character encoding)