Complete ASCII Table
Standard & Extended ASCII Character Reference
Standard ASCII Table (0-127)
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Extended ASCII Table (128-255)
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About ASCII
ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices.
Standard ASCII (0-127):
- 7-bit character encoding
- First 32 characters (0-31) are control characters
- Characters 32-127 are printable characters
- Includes digits, uppercase and lowercase letters, and punctuation
Extended ASCII (128-255):
- Uses 8 bits per character (compared to 7 bits for standard ASCII)
- Different encodings support different character sets for the extended range
- Common encodings include ISO-8859 series, Windows code pages, and UTF-8
- UTF-8 has become the standard for modern applications
Current Encoding: UTF-8
UTF-8 is a variable-width character encoding capable of encoding all valid Unicode code points. It's the dominant encoding for the web and is backward compatible with ASCII.