ASCII

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ASCII is a widely used character encoding standard that represents text in computers and other devices using 7-bit numerical codes for letters, digits, punctuation, and control characters.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
ASCII canonical 10
American Standard Code for Information Interchange 4
7-bit ASCII 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf character encoding standard
character set
abbreviationOf American Standard Code for Information Interchange
linked to: ASCII
basedOn teleprinter codes
category 7-bit character encoding
characterEncodingType single-byte encoding
codePointRange 0–127
definesCodePoints 128
DELCodePoint 127
designedFor computers
telecommunications equipment
doesNotSupport accented Latin letters
non-Latin scripts
firstPublishedYear 1963
fullName American Standard Code for Information Interchange
linked to: ASCII
hasControlCharacter DEL
hasControlCharacterRange 0–31
includes BEL control character
ESC control character
NUL control character
basic punctuation characters
carriage return control character
control characters
digits 0–9
lowercase Latin letters a–z
newline control character
printable characters
space character
tab control character
uppercase Latin letters A–Z
influenced ISO 646
UTF-8
Unicode
extended ASCII encodings
isSubsetOf UTF-8
Unicode
mostSignificantBit 0
printableCharacterRange 32–126
revisedYear 1967
1968
standardizedBy ANSI
ASA
standardNumber ANSI X3.4
linked to: ANSI
supportsLanguage English
usedFor data interchange
text representation in communication equipment
text representation in computers
usesBitWidth 7-bit

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (16)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Basic Latin encodingBasisFor ISO 646
linked to: ASCII
ASCII fullName American Standard Code for Information Interchange
linked to: ASCII
ASCII abbreviationOf American Standard Code for Information Interchange
linked to: ASCII
American Standards Association contributedTo ASCII
subject linked to: ASA
American Standards Association contributedTo American Standard Code for Information Interchange
subject linked to: ASA
linked to: ASCII
ASCII fullName American Standard Code for Information Interchange
subject linked to: ASA
linked to: ASCII
ISO 646 relatedTo ASCII
ISO 646 basedOn ASCII
B characterSet ASCII
ISO/IEC 8859 extends ASCII
VT100 usesCharacterSet 7-bit ASCII
subject linked to: VT100 terminal
linked to: ASCII
RFC 973 hasPageFormat ASCII
EDIT textEncoding ASCII