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Everything about Extended ASCII
Nickname for 8-bit ASCII-derived character sets
Extended ASCII is a repertoire of character encodings that generally include the original 96 ASCII character set, plus up to 128 additional characters. There is no formal definition of "extended ASCII", and the use of the term has been criticized. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Extended ASCIIA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Data Communications and NetworkingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: A Pairing Free Identity Based Two Party Authenticated Key Agreement Protocol Using Hexadecimal Extended ASCII Elliptic Curve CryptographyCited 12 times
- Go sideways: Western Latin character setsA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Character encodingA closely related topic
đź“– Definitions
No dictionary entry for this exact phrase.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
đź“š Books worth reading
Data Communications and NetworkingBehrouz A. Forouzan, Catherine Ann Coombs · 2000
An introduction to computer scienceJean-Paul Tremblay, Richard B. Bunt · 1979
Starting Out with JavaTony Gaddis · 2004
Microprocessor Architecture, Programming, and Applications with the 8085Ramesh S. Gaonkar · 1996
Introduction to Computing Using PythonLjubomir Perkovic · 2011
SPARC Architecture, Assembly Language Programming, and CRichard P. Paul · 1994
Advanced OS/2 ProgrammingRay Duncan · 1989
Data structures using C++D. S. Malik · 2010
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
đź”— Related topics
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- Character encoding Character encoding is a convention of using a numeric value to represent each character of a writing script. Not only can a character set include natural…
- ISO/IEC 8859-9 ISO/IEC 8859-9:1999, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 9: Latin alphabet No. 5, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859…
- ISO/IEC 8859-1 ISO/IEC 8859-1, commonly referred to as Latin-1, is a character encoding in the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings. It encodes…
- ISO/IEC 8859-5 ISO/IEC 8859-5:1999, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 5: Latin/Cyrillic alphabet, is part of the ISO/IEC…
- ISO/IEC 8859 ISO/IEC 8859 is a series of technical standards for 8-bit character encodings developed jointly by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)…
- ISO/IEC 8859-2 ISO/IEC 8859-2:1999, Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 2: Latin alphabet No. 2, is part of the ISO/IEC 8859…
- Windows code page Windows code pages are sets of characters or code pages (known as character encodings in other operating systems) used in Microsoft Windows from the 1980s…