ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a character encoding standard used to represent text in computers and other devices that use text. ASCII assigns a numeric value to each letter, digit, punctuation mark, and control character, with values ranging from 0 to 127. For example, the capital letter “A” is represented by the number 65, and the newline character is represented by 10. ASCII was originally designed for telecommunication and is still widely used in modern computing, particularly in programming and data formats where simple text representation is needed. It forms the basis for other character encoding systems, such as UTF-8, which extends ASCII to support a wider range of characters.
