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ASCIIrelated is a term used to describe topics, content, or software that pertain to the ASCII character encoding and its derivatives. ASCII, standing for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a 7-bit encoding that defines 128 code points: 32 through 126 are printable characters, while 0 through 31 and 127 are control codes used to manage devices. Many systems implement extended ASCII variants (for example ISO/IEC 8859-1 or Windows-1252) that map the eighth bit to additional characters, leading to a family of code pages.

Common ASCIIrelated topics include the historical development of ASCII, its technical properties, and its practical uses.

In contemporary computing, ASCII is a subset of Unicode and remains important for compatibility and interoperability.

ASCII
underpins
plain-text
data
in
many
network
protocols
and
formats,
such
as
email,
HTTP,
JSON,
and
XML,
where
non-ASCII
characters
are
either
encoded
or
avoided.
It
also
encompasses
ASCII
art,
which
uses
ordinary
characters
to
create
images,
and
the
role
of
ASCII
control
characters
in
terminals
and
printers
(for
layout
and
device
control).
ASCIIrelated
discussions
often
address
encoding
conversions,
data
portability,
and
the
preservation
of
ASCII
in
legacy
software
and
protocols.