Abbreviated ASCII, pronounced "as-kee." A standard coding scheme that assigns numeric values to letters, numbers, punctuation characters, and control characters to achieve compatibility among different computers and peripheral devices. In ASCII, each character is represented by a unique integer value in the range 0 through 255. See Appendix C.
See also ASCII extended character set; ASCII file; ASCII standard character set; double-byte character set; Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code; Unicode.