It describes itself as " a freely-available set of ASCII files containing the marked-up text of a substantial English dictionary ".

* The programming additionally does not allow a ten-millions digit to be displayed for Raising Millions, so ASCII characters are used ; these do not reset during a session even if the value itself has been reset.

Like APL, the primitive functions and operators are represented by single or double characters ; however, unlike APL, K restricts itself to the ASCII character set ( a feature it shares with J, another variant of APL ).

* It is worth noting that at the time Remorse was founded, ASCII art itself within the IBM-PC underground computer art scene was not taken seriously within the ANSI art community.

Against these odds Remorse rose to the challenge and established itself as what is now the longest operating organization of ASCII artists in history.

The text itself needs to be exported i. e. in ASCII format and can be saved as a sequence of homogeneous elements ( all presentation attributes like font, size, etc.

ASCII was

The US ASCII 1968 Code Chart was structured with two columns of control characters, a column with special characters, a column with numbers, and four columns of letters

The American Standard Code for Information Interchange ( ASCII ) was developed under the auspices of a committee of the American Standards Association, called the X3 committee, by its X3. 2 ( later X3L2 ) subcommittee, and later by that subcommittee's X3. 2. 4 working group.

Before ASCII was developed, the encodings in use included 26 alphabetic characters, 10 numerical digits, and from 11 to 25 special graphic symbols.

The committee decided it was important to support upper case 64-character alphabets, and chose to pattern ASCII so it could be reduced easily to a usable 64-character set of graphic codes.

With the other special characters and control codes filled in, ASCII was published as ASA X3. 4-1963, leaving 28 code positions without any assigned meaning, reserved for future standardization, and one unassigned control code.

ASCII was subsequently updated as USASI X3. 4-1967, then USASI X3. 4-1968, ANSI X3. 4-1977, and finally, ANSI X3. 4-1986 ( the first two are occasionally retronamed ANSI X3. 4-1967, and ANSI X3. 4-1968 ).

His British colleague Hugh McGregor Ross helped to popularize this work — according to Bemer, " so much so that the code that was to become ASCII was first called the Bemer-Ross Code in Europe ".

Similarly, all output was scrutinized for a Control-D character ( ASCII 4 ), which BASIC programs would send before seemingly PRINTing a disk command to get DOS's attention ( the disk commands would not really get PRINTed but were intercepted by DOS and prevented from making it to the screen output ).

Most of the information was displayed using ordinary ASCII text or ANSI art, though some BBSes experimented with higher resolution visual formats such as the innovative but obscure Remote Imaging Protocol.

Many systems became quite sophisticated in graphic presentation, especially considering that the system was confined to ASCII codes.

Unless a caller was using terminal emulation software written for, and running on, the same type of system as the BBS, the session would simply fall back to simple ASCII output.

The most popular form of online graphics was ANSI art, which combined the IBM Extended ASCII character set's blocks and symbols with ANSI escape sequences to allow changing colors on demand, provide cursor control and screen formatting, and even basic musical tones.

It was the predecessor to the International Telegraph Alphabet No. 2 ( ITA2 ), the teleprinter code in use until the advent of ASCII.

ASCII was introduced in 1963 and is a 7-bit encoding scheme used to encode letters, numerals, symbols, and device control codes as fixed-length codes using integers.

While IBM was a chief proponent of the ASCII standardization committee, they did not have time to prepare ASCII peripherals ( such as card punch machines ) to ship with its System / 360 computers, so the company settled on EBCDIC.

IBM mainframes used an EBCDIC character set and CP / M and DEC machines used ASCII, so conversion between the two character sets was one of the early functions built into Kermit.

The near-ubiquity of ASCII was a great help, but failed to address international and linguistic concerns.

The dollar-sign ("$") was not so useful in England, and the accented characters used in Spanish, French, German, and many other languages were entirely unavailable in ASCII ( not to mention characters used in Greek, Russian, and most Eastern languages ).

Upper Picture: RS-232 signalling as seen when probed by an actual oscilloscope ( Tektronix MSO4104B ) for an uppercase ASCII " K " character ( 0x4b ) with 1 start bit ( always ), 8 data bits, 1 stop bit and no parity bits ( 8N1 ) Lower Picture: Same signal was inputted into an RS-232 to UART converter, the output is depicted.

It was distributed for Fujitsu's FM-8 and FM-7 platforms in a Japanese monthly personal computer magazine called Gekkan ASCII.

It was designed for backward compatibility with ASCII and to avoid the complications of endianness and byte order marks in UTF-16 and UTF-32.

Work on the ASCII standard began on October 6, 1960, with the first meeting of the American Standards Association's ( ASA ) X3. 2 subcommittee.

The X3 committee also addressed how ASCII should be transmitted ( least significant bit first ), and how it should be recorded on perforated tape.

The two versions can be distinguished by looking at the first six bytes of the file ( the " magic number " or " signature "), which, when interpreted as ASCII, read " GIF87a " and " GIF89a ", respectively.

The first 128 characters of Unicode, which correspond one-to-one with ASCII, are encoded using a single octet with the same binary value as ASCII, making valid ASCII text valid UTF-8-encoded Unicode as well.

It was based on two programs: the first program, "< tt > spider </ tt >" maintains a queue in a relational database, and the second program "< tt > mite </ tt >", is a modified < tt > www </ tt > ASCII browser that downloads the pages from the Web.

For example, in early versions of the C and C ++ languages, identifiers are restricted to being a sequence of one or more ASCII letters, digits ( these may not appear as the first character ), and underscores.

When the first minicomputers were being released, most manufacturers turned to the existing mass-produced ASCII teleprinters ( primarily the Teletype Model 33, capable of 10 ASCII characters per second throughput ) as a low-cost solution for keyboard input and printer output.

However, this usage is now uncommon, as the notion of " just plain ASCII " ( though very attractive at first glance ), has turned out to have difficulties.

In modern typography, and where technological limitations make its use difficult ( such as in use of typewriters, first telegraphs or ASCII ), æ is often eschewed in favour of the digraph ae.

This allowed the operator to produce the first 32 characters in the ASCII table.

The IBM origin of the numbering scheme is reflected in the fact that the smallest ( first ) numbers are assigned to variations of IBM's EBCDIC encoding and slightly larger numbers refer to variations of IBM's extended ASCII encoding as used in its PC hardware.

* Mark Zbikowski, a Microsoft programmer whose ASCII initials appear in the first two bytes of a DOS MZ executable

GEnie was founded by Bill Louden on October 1, 1985 and was launched as an ASCII text-based service by GE's Information Services division in October 1985, and received attention as the first serious commercial competition to CompuServe.

In January 1995, Project Gutenberg started to publish the ASCII text of the Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition ( 1911 ), but disagreement about the method halted the work after the first volume.

* Character ( dot, period, full stop ) ( ASCII: 46 ) provided that it is not the first or last character, and provided also that it does not appear two or more times consecutively ( e. g. John .. Doe @ example. com is not allowed.

The first encoding to become widely used was JIS X 0201, which is a single-byte encoding that only covers standard 7-bit ASCII characters with half-width katakana extensions.

This is necessary because the umlauts and some other special characters leave no room to have all the special symbols of ASCII, needed by programmers among others, available on the first or second ( shifted ) levels without unduly increasing the size of the keyboard.

* Amiga's black screen of death called Guru Meditation, in its first version, when the machine hung up for uncertain reasons, showed the hexadecimal number 48454C50, which stands for " HELP " in hexadecimal ASCII characters ( 48 = H, 45 = E, 4C = L, 50 = P ).

In base 10, given a set of glyphs where 0, 1 and 8 are symmetrical around the horizontal axis, and 6 and 9 are the same as each other upside down, ( such as the digit characters in ASCII using the font Stylus BT, or on the seven-segment display of a calculator ), the first few strobogrammatic primes are: