View source for ASCII

{{also|ascii}}
==English==
{{wikipedia}}

===Alternative forms===
* {{alt|en|ascii}}

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈæski/}}
* {{audio|en|en-us-ASCII.ogg|a=US}}
* {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ASCII.wav|a=Southern England}}
* {{rhymes|en|æski|s=2}}

===Proper noun===
{{en-proper noun}}

# {{lb|en|computing}} {{acronym of|en|American Standard Code for Information Interchange}}
#: {{syn|en|US-ASCII}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1989|author=D. Russell|title=The Principles of Computer Networking|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521339926|page=218|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=ReDwVJGlxLsC&pg=PA218&dq=%22EBCDIC%22&hl=&cd=3&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22EBCDIC%22&f=false|text=Thus, to translate an EBCDIC message into an '''ASCII''' one we need a table with 256 one-byte entries. In each position we put the '''ASCII''' code that corresponds to that EBCDIC entry.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2021|author=Claire Cock-Starkey|title=Hyphens & Hashtags|publisher=Bodleian Library|page=127|passage=In 1960 American Standard Code for Information Exchange ('''ASCII''')  was developed from telegraphic codes.}}

====Derived terms====
{{der3|en
|ASCII art
|ASCIIbetical
|ASCIIfy
|extended ASCII
|PETSCII
|pure ASCII text
|US-ASCII
|ArmSCII
|ATASCII
|ASCIIfication
}}

====Translations====
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* Esperanto: {{t|eo|Askio}}
* French: {{t+|fr|ASCII|m}}
* Japanese: {{t|ja|ASCII|tr=asukī}}, {{t|ja|アスキー|tr=asukī}}
* Marathi: {{t|mr|आस्की}}, {{t|mr|अ‍ॅस्की}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|ASCII|m}}
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===See also===
* {{l|en|extended ASCII}}
* {{l|en|7-bit}}
* {{l|en|EBCDIC}}
* {{l|en|Unicode}}
* {{l|en|UTF-7}}
* {{l|en|UTF-8}}
* {{l|en|UTF-16}}
* [[Appendix:Unicode]]

===Further reading===
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060305121105/http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/ISO-IR/006.pdf The official ISO standards document, standard 006].

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=aciis|Isiac}}

==Italian==

===Etymology===
{{bor+|it|en|ASCII}}.

===Pronunciation===
{{it-pr|àsci}}

===Noun===
{{head|it|noun}}

# {{l|en|ASCII}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|it|a=ascii|sciai}}

==Japanese==
{{wp|lang=ja}}

===Etymology===
{{bor+|ja|en|ASCII}}.<ref name="DJR"/>

===Pronunciation===
{{ja-pron|アスキー|acc=1|acc_ref=DJR|dev=2}}

===Proper noun===
{{ja-pos|proper|アスキー}}

# {{lb|ja|computing}} [[#English|ASCII]] {{gl|character encoding}}

====Derived terms====
* {{ja-r|ASCIIファイル|アスキー ファイル}}

====See also====
* {{ja-r|アスキーアート|アスキー アート}}

===References===
<references/>

{{cln|ja|terms written in foreign scripts}}

==Portuguese==

===Etymology===
{{ubor|pt|en|ASCII}}.

===Pronunciation===
{{pt-IPA|ásqui}}

===Proper noun===
{{pt-proper noun|m}}

# {{lb|pt|computing}} {{l|en|ASCII}} {{gloss|a 7-bit character encoding}}