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    The document discusses the ASCII character encoding standard. ASCII uses 7-bit binary codes to represent English characters, numbers, and basic punctuation. It allows computers to consistently interpret character data. The ASCII standard assigns numeric codes to characters in a way that makes it easy to programmatically determine properties like case, number status, and for conversion between cases.

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    Character Representation: ASCII

    Introduction
    Character data isn't just alphabetic characters, but also numeric characters, punctuation, spaces,
    etc. Most keys on the central part of the keyboard (except shift, caps lock) are characters.
    Characters need to be represented in binary. After all, computers store and manipulate 0's and 1's
    (and even those 0's and 1's are just abstractions---the implementation is typically voltages).
    The most common character representation is ASCII, which stands for American Standard Code
    for Information Interchange.
    There are two reasons to use ASCII. First, we need some way to represent characters as binary
    numbers (or, equivalently, as bit string patterns). There's not much choice about this since
    computers represent everything in binary.
    The other reason we use ASCII is because of the letter "S" in ASCII, which stands for "standard".
    Standards are good because they allow for common formats that everyone can agree on.

    ASCII Code of characters. (in Hex)


    00
    01
    02
    03
    04
    05
    06
    07
    08
    09
    0a
    0b
    0c
    0d
    0e
    0f

    nul
    soh
    stx
    etx
    eot
    enq
    ack
    bel
    bs
    ht
    nl
    vt
    np
    cr
    so
    si

    10
    11
    12
    13
    14
    15
    16
    17
    18
    19
    1a
    1b
    1c
    1d
    1e
    1f

    dle
    dc1
    dc2
    dc3
    dc4
    nak
    syn
    etb
    can
    em
    sub
    esc
    fs
    gs
    rs
    us

    Nice Properties

    20
    21
    22
    23
    24
    25
    26
    27
    28
    29
    2a
    2b
    2c
    2d
    2e
    2f

    sp
    !
    "
    #
    $
    %
    &
    '
    (
    )
    *
    +
    ,
    .
    /

    30
    31
    32
    33
    34
    35
    36
    37
    38
    39
    3a
    3b
    3c
    3d
    3e
    3f

    0
    1
    2
    3
    4
    5
    6
    7
    8
    9
    :
    ;
    <
    =
    >
    ?

    40
    41
    42
    43
    44
    45
    46
    47
    48
    49
    4a
    4b
    4c
    4d
    4e
    4f

    @
    A
    B
    C
    D
    E
    F
    G
    H
    I
    J
    K
    L
    M
    N
    O

    50
    51
    52
    53
    54
    55
    56
    57
    58
    59
    5a
    5b
    5c
    5d
    5e
    5f

    P
    Q
    R
    S
    T
    U
    V
    W
    X
    Y
    Z
    [
    \
    ]
    ^
    _

    60
    61
    62
    63
    64
    65
    66
    67
    68
    69
    6a
    6b
    6c
    6d
    6e
    6f

    `
    a
    b
    c
    d
    e
    f
    g
    h
    i
    j
    k
    l
    m
    n
    o

    70
    71
    72
    73
    74
    75
    76
    77
    78
    79
    7a
    7b
    7c
    7d
    7e
    7f

    p
    q
    r
    s
    t
    u
    v
    w
    x
    y
    z
    {
    |
    }
    ~
    del

    Even though character sets don't have mathematical properties, there are some nice aspects about
    ASCII. In particular, the lowercase letters are contiguous ('a' through 'z' maps to 6116 through
    7a16). The upper case letters are also contiguous ('A' through 'Z' maps to 4116 through 5a16).
    Finally, the digits are contiguous ('0' through '9' maps to to 3016 through 3916).
    Since they are contiguous, it's usually easy to determine whether a character is lowercase or
    uppercase (by checking if the ASCII code lies in the range of lower or uppercase ASCII codes),
    or to determine if it's a digit, or to convert a digit in ASCII to an int value.
    The characters between 0 and 31 are generally not printable (control characters, etc). 2016 is the
    space character, 0a16 is new line and 0d16 is carriage return.
    Also, note that there are only 128 ASCII characters. This means only 7 bits are required to
    represent an ASCII character. However, since the smallest size representation on most computers
    is a byte, a byte is used to store an ASCII character. The MSb of an ASCII character is 0.
    The difference in the ASCII code between an uppercase letter and its
    corresponding lowercase letter is 2016. This makes it easy to convert lower to
    uppercase (and back) in hex (or binary).

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