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 ...

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 ...

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 ...