Question

3.5 where/when do we use the acronym ASCII

Answer 1

Q1 - When/Where is acronym ASCII used ?
A1 - Below are the points for usage of ASCII acronym :-

1) ASCII is the abreviation for the American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

2) ASCII format is used to encode the files in computer and on internet . It is used to transfer the data from one computer to another .

3) Each letter , number and special character is represented with a 7 bit binary number .It is used to code 128 english characters as numbers from
0 to 127 . For eg. ASCII code for capital M is 77 . Thereafter , 77 is converted into 7 bit representation of the 0's and 1's or binary digits
and is henceforth transfered from one computer to another.

4) Upper and lower case letters are assigned different numbers . For eg. letter 'a' will have ASCII code of 97 and letter 'A' is assigned with the decimal nuber of 65
as shown in the ASCII table .

5) It helps in simplified application developement when application is written in unicode only .All symbols needed by the application for reading and writing character data reside
in a single code page .

6) Ease of migration of existing code as UTF-8 includes traditional ASCII characters which simplifies existing Asxii aaplications to unicode .

7) As the data passes from the client to the databases the code page is directly converted .

8) Unicode or the ASCII is becoming the universal code page of the web . Currently , the web page standards need unicode or the ASCII code to represent data
or to transfer it over the internet .

9) Applications that use ASCII code can support multiple languages in data , user interface and multiple reports . This makes it multi-lingual feature for applications .