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  • Extended ASCII (ISO/IEC 8859)

    The Extended ASCII character set extends the basic 7-bit ASCII range to 8-bits, to provide additional character encoding for broader character representation scenarios.

    It builds upon ISO/IEC 2022 which defined the initial 8-bit ASCII character set, with the C0 character set range replicating 7-bit ASCII and the C1 range covering extended control characters using character codes 128-159.

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  • ASCII Character Table (ISO/IEC 646)

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    ASCII is an acronym for ‘American Standard Code for Information Interchange’ and is a very old and long-lived data format.

    The standard dates back to the 1960s, and is still in use today.

    The lower 7-bit ASCII range represents a standardised western (English) alphabet.

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