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ASCII
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ASCII (or the American Standard Code for the Interchange of Information) is a digital encoding for basic text characters. Formally, ASCII defines 127 different characters (a 7-bit code). Various versions of "extended ASCII" define 256 characters, (an 8-bit code). Most online text, and many other digital texts, are encoded in ASCII.
A digital file consisting of nothing but a sequence of ASCII (or extended ASCII) is often called an "ASCII file", and ASCII may therefore also be considered a text file format.
A wider range of characters, particularly including characters from non-Latin alphabets, accented characters, and various special symbols is available in the Unicode encoding system.
