ASCII

See also: ascii

English

ASCII Code Chart

Alternative forms

• ascii

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæski/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iː

Proper noun

ASCII

1. (computing) Acronym of American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

   Synonym: US-ASCII

   • 1989, D. Russell, The Principles of Computer Networking, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 218:

     Thus, to translate an EBCDIC message into an ASCII one we need a table with 256 one-byte entries. In each position we put the ASCII code that corresponds to that EBCDIC entry.

   • 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

• ArmSCII
• ASCII armor
• ASCII art
• ASCIIbetical
• ASCIIfication
• ASCIIfy
• ATASCII
• extended ASCII
• PETSCII
• pure ASCII text
• US-ASCII

Translations

Translations

• Esperanto: Askio
• French: ASCII (fr) m
• Japanese: ASCII (ja) (asukī), アスキー (asukī)
• Korean: 아스키 (ko) (aseuki)
• Marathi: आस्की (āskī), अ‍ॅस्की (a‍ĕskī)
• Portuguese: ASCII (pt) m

See also

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

Further reading

• The official ISO standards document, standard 006.

Anagrams

• Isiac

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English ASCII.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaʃ.ʃi/
• Rhymes: -aʃʃi

Noun

ASCII

1. ASCII

Anagrams

• sciai

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English ASCII.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) アスキー [áꜜsùkìì] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [a̠sɨ̥kʲiː]

Proper noun

ASCII(アスキー) • (Asukī) 

1. (computing) ASCII (character encoding)

Derived terms

• ASCII(アスキー)ファイル (asukī fairu)

See also

• アスキーアート (asukī āto)

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)