American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)

American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) - The code developed by ANSI for information interchange among data processing systems, data communications systems, and associated equipment. The ASCII character set consists of 7-bit control characters and symbolic characters.

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Source: Postcom, 05 February 2010 10:35:05, http://postcom.org/public/admail_image/glossary.htm

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ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange. An eight-bit code for character representation; includes seven bits plus parity.

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Source: Information-Management.com, 30 May 2010 10:43:42, http://www.information-management.com/glossary/a.html

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ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange. An eight-bit code for character representation; includes seven bits plus parity.

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Source: DataMentors, 13 August 2010 09:55:17, http://www.datamentors.com/News-and-Resources/Glossary.html

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American standard code for information interchange (ASCII) - Basic computer characters accepted by all American machines and many foreign ones.

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Source: American Society for Quality, 30 August 2010 12:56:20, http://www.asq.org/glossary/

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ASCII - Source: OpenGIS Guide

An abbreviation for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. The ASCII format provides computer systems with a common language for exchanging information. Although most GIS software system make use of proprietary binary codes, almost all systems have import-export capabilities for translating between ASCII and binary formats.

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Source: Open Geospatial Consortium, 01 June 2011 12:47:58, http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/glossary

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ASCII - [data transfer] Acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. The de facto standard for the format of text files in computers and on the Internet that assigns a 7-bit binary number to each alphanumeric or special character. ASCII defines 128 possible characters.

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Source: esri, 21 January 2012 10:19:22, http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/GISDictionary/term/abbreviation