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ASCII, abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard (the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) prefers the name US-ASCII). ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices. Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII, although they support many additional characters.
Originally based on the English alphabet, ASCII encodes 128 specified characters into seven-bit integers as shown by the ASCII chart:
!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>? |
@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_ |
`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~ |