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Character encoding standard
ASCII, an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for representing a particular set of 95 (English-language–focused) printable and 33 control characters – a total of 128 code points. The set of available punctuation had significant impact on the syntax of computer languages and text markup. ASCII hugely influenced the design of character sets used by modern computers; for example, the first 128 code points of Unicode are the same as ASCII. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: ASCIIA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Improved Security of the Data Communication in VANET Environment Using ASCII-ECC AlgorithmInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The BASIC handbook, an encyclopedia of the BASIC computer languageThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: A molecular iodine atlas in ascii formatCited 94 times
- Go sideways: Extended ASCIIA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Control characterA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun ascians
Proper noun Alternative letter-case form of ASCII.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
A molecular iodine atlas in ascii format
A lossless ECG data compression technique using ASCII character encoding
An ECG signal compression technique using ASCII character encoding
Vision-based hand gesture recognition of alphabets, numbers, arithmetic operators and ASCII characters in order to develop a virtual text-entry interface system
A joint application of optimal threshold based discrete cosine transform and ASCII encoding for ECG data compression with its inherent encryption
Structure-based ASCII art
ECG signal compression using ASCII character encoding and transmission via SMS
ASCII-character-encoding based PPG compression for tele-monitoring system
🆕 Influential since 2022
Improved Security of the Data Communication in VANET Environment Using ASCII-ECC Algorithm
Vigenere and genetic cross-over acting at the restricted ASCII code level for color image encryption
An Encoding Table Corresponding to ASCII Codes for DNA Data Storage and a New Error Correction Method HMSA
ArtPerception: ASCII art-based jailbreak on LLMs with recognition pre-test
Lightweight and high-precision spectral convolutional neural network model for custom 94-class ASCII character recognition
📚 Books worth reading
The BASIC handbook, an encyclopedia of the BASIC computer languageDavid A. Lien · 1978- 📕PET graphicsNick Hampshire · 1981
The 8080/Z-80 assembly languageAlan R. Miller · 1981
Assembly language programming for the TRS-80 Model 16Dan Keen, Dave Dischert · 1984
Compute!'s telecomputing on the Commodore 64Compute! Publications, Inc · 1985
Learning level IIDavid A. Lien · 1979
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🔗 Related topics
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