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TheAmerican Standard Code for Information Interchange (acronym:ASCII) is acharacter-encoding scheme based on theordering of thew:English alphabet. ASCII codes representtext incomputers,communications equipment, and other devices that use text. Most modern character-encoding schemes, which support many more characters than did the original, are based on ASCII.
US-ASCII is theIANA preferred charset name for ASCII.
