ASCII Full Form Name
Full Form of ASCII :
American Standard Code for Information
Interchange:
ASCII Full Form is American
Standard Code for Information Interchange. ASCII is one of the
most used formats of text files on the web and in computers. ASCII was
initially derived from telegraph codes. It was developed by ANSI or American
National Standards Institute. Every numerical, alphabetical, and special
character in an ASCII file is denoted by a 7-bit binary code. It has become the
standard format, which is vastly used to transfer texts between two or more
computers. ASCII is used to receive and send emails. These files can also be
used as the common denominator to convert data. For instance, if program A and
program B have different formats, either of them can be converted if both
programs can support ASCII file imports.
ASCII is a standard for character
coding that is termed as the US-ASCII by the Internet Assigned Numbers
Authority (abbreviated as IANA). The codes are representative of text in
telecommunications equipment, computers, and other gadgets. Many modern
character-encoding standards are premised upon ASCII, although there are
additional characters added in them. ASCII was created from telegraph code. The
first commercial use of the code was made in the form of a seven-bit
teleprinter code that the Bell Data Services promoted. The development work on
the code started on 6 October 1960, with the organization of the first meeting
of the ASA (American Standards Association, which is now known as the American
National Standards Institute) subcommittee.
In the year 1963, the first
edition of the ASCII standard was published, which was revised in the year
1967. The most recent update was made in the year 1986. The standard was
originally created on English Alphabet. It encodes 128 characters into 7-bit
integers. The characters include numbers from 0 to 9, a to z, A to Z, control
codes, punctuation symbols, and space. ASCII has been incorporated in the
Unicode and the Universal Character Set (abbreviated as UCS) that have a wider
range of characters and encoding forms. While ASCII is restricted to just 128
characters, UCS and Unicode offer more characters for encoding purposes.