ASCII

• American Standard Code for Informational Interchange
• Distinct order based on codes
  • Each character has relative position (before or after) other characters
  • Uppercase and lowercase letters are in order
  • Can use the codes to order things

OG Set

• Used 7 bits to represent each character
• Allowed 128 unique characters
• 8th bit was a check bit

Extended Set

• All 8 bits represented a character
• 8 bit version is called the Latin-1 Extended ASCII character set
• Allows 256 unique characters

Computer Science Character Set