ASCII – ISO 8859-1 ( Latin – 1 ) characters set – West / West Europe Conversion table

ASCII ISO 8859-1 encodes what it refers to as “Latin alphabet no. 1. ASCII ISO 8859-1 consists of 191 characters from the Latin script. This system of character encoding is used throughout Western Europe, North America, South America, Canada, Oceania, and much of Africa. As well as this it is also commonly used in most standard romanizations of East-Asian languages.

The encoding of each character is encoded as a single eight-bit code value. The ASCII ISO 8859-1 code values can be used in almost any data interchange system to communicate many languages.

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ASCII Codes

ASCII is an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is a character-encoding scheme that was originally based on the English alphabet and it encoded 128 characters – the numbers 0-9, the letters a-z and A-Z, some basic punctuation symbols, some control codes that originated with Teletype machines, and a blank space. It is a 7-bit character code where each bit represents a unique character or binary integers.

The original 128 ASCII characters had 33 which are non-printing control characters (many of which are obsolete now) that affect how text and space is processed. The remaining 95 characters are printable characters including the space which is considered an invisible character or graphic in ASCII plus letters, digits, punctuation marks, as well as few miscellaneous symbols. They represent virtually every character on the keyboard.

The ASCII control characters code 0-31.
The first 32 characters in the ASCII-table are unprintable control codes and are utilised to control peripherals such as printers.
ASCII codes represent text in various computers, communications equipment, plus other devices that make use of text. The majority of modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII, though nowadays they also support many additional characters as well as the original ones.

ASCII was originally developed from telegraphic codes. The first commercial use of ASCII was on a seven-bit teleprinter code that was made use of by Bell data services.

The initial agreement on the original ASCII standard was begun on 6th October 1960  by American Standards Association’s (ASA) X3.2 subcommittee. The first edition of the ASCII standard was published in 1964 and there was a major update in 1967. The most recent update was in 1986.

The later ASCII codes were designed to allow convenient ordering or sorting of lists into alphabetical order. Also the ASCII codes have been extended to include features for other devices as well as the original teleprinters.

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