ASCII Full Form- American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASCII stands for the American Standard Code for Information Interchange. The character encoding system used in electronic communication is called ASCII. ASCII codes represent text on machines, telecommunications, and other equipment.

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• ASCII provides a generally recognised and understandable character set for simple data transmission. 
• It helps developers to create interfaces that people and machines can comprehend.
• ASCII encoding converts a data string into ASCII characters that may be understood and displayed as plain text for humans and data for computers.
• Programmers use the ASCII character set's structure to ease specific tasks. For example, altering a single bit transforms text from capital to lower when utilising ASCII character codes.
• ASCII was the very first significant character-encoding protocol for data processing.
• Most current computer systems employ Unicode, the Unicode Worldwide Character System. It is a character-encoding specification that supports ASCII-encoded information.
• In 1969, the Internet Engineering Task Force issued "ASCII style for Network Interchange" as RFC 20, adopting ASCII as an internet-based data standard. 
• That request for comments document defined the usage of ASCII for internet data, which was adopted as a complete standard in 2015.
• Unicode has supplanted ASCII encoding, making it technically outdated. However, ASCII characters employ the same formatting as the first 128 characters of Unicode Conversion Format 8. Therefore, ASCII text is UTF-8 interoperable.
• In 2003, the IETF published RFC 3629, which standardised the adoption of UTF-8 encoding for all online content.
• Most computers today utilise ASCII, or Unicode, formatting. Exceptions include some IBM mainframes that employ the exclusive 8-bit Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Coding (EBCDIC).