There's an old engineering joke that says: “Standards are great … everyone should have one!” The problem is that – very often – everyone does. Consider the case of storing textual data inside a ...

The simplest communications protocol for text. The ASCII protocol transmits only ASCII characters and uses ASCII control codes. It also implies little or no error ...

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The sequential order of ASCII data. In ASCII code, lower case characters follow upper case. True ASCII order would put the words DATA, data and SYSTEM into the following sequence. See ASCII chart.