Computer memory saves all data in digital form. There is no way to store characters directly. Each character has its digital code equivalent: ASCII code (for American Standard Code for Information ...

It appears that the particular variety of extended ASCII that I want is actually called Code Page 437 as opposed to the more popular ISO 8859-1. The reason I wasn't seeing the right characters in OS X ...

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 ...

Using ASCII characters in Google Chrome is helpful when you need to search for or type something that contains characters not appearing on your keyboard. Many of the commercial and trade symbols used ...

ASCII is a character code established in the 1960s to include only the characters and symbols necessary for English communication and for computers at the time. Since old computers could not display ...

ASCII plays a much more important role on our systems than generating techno-art. Let's explore the commands that allow you to see how it works. Back when I started working with computers, ...

My first real computer, an Amstrad CPC464, came with the robust Locomotive Basic in ROM, allowing the user to easily hack the hardware ASCII character set. This was awesome: all you had to do assign ...

Peter Nitsch of Teehan+Lax has been experimenting with new ways of interacting with ASCII art that go well beyond static text images. His latest project combined a projector and a computer too allow ...