Explained Simply. If you’re gonna be a hacker eventually you’re gonna have to write software to process and generate text ...

The second half of the ASCII character set (characters 128 through 255). Designed in the 1960s, ASCII was originally a 7-bit code (0 through 127). To accommodate foreign languages, the DOS code set ...

It’s likely that many Hackaday readers will be aware of UTF-8, the mechanism for incorporating diverse alphabets and other characters such as 💩 emojis. It takes the long-established 7-bit ASCII ...

There's an old engineering joke that says: “Standards are great … everyone should have one!” The problem is that – very often – everyone does. Consider the case of storing textual data inside a ...

One of the standards in common use is the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII). close ASCIIAmerican Standard Code for Information Interchange. A 7-bit character set used for ...