What is ASCII?
ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a 7-bit character encoding covering 128 code points — English letters, digits, punctuation, and control characters. It is the common subset that nearly every modern encoding (including UTF-8) remains backward-compatible with.
Example
The letter "A" is code point 65 (0x41) in every ASCII-compatible encoding.
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