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ASCII  

DEFINITION

  • ASCII is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices. Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII, although they support many additional characters.

BROADER CONCEPT

ENTRY TERMS

  • ASCII-IWG1, compressed ascii, ASCII interchange files, ASCII Table, ASCII files, OTHER ASCII, ASCII Text, Plain Text, ASCII Text

CHANGE NOTE

  • 2019-10-25 11:55:19.0 [sritz] Insert Concept add broader relation (ASCII [8e128326-b9cb-44c7-9e6b-4bd950a08753,369541] - Granule Data Format [8e770fe1-6e82-43aa-9f8a-75d217d7e6cb,369529]);
  • 2020-06-17 12:41:14.0 [tstevens] insert AltLabel (id: null category: primary text: American Standard Code for Information Interchange language code: en); insert AltLabel (id: null category: null text: ASCII-IWG1, compressed ascii, ASCII interchange files, ASCII Table, ASCII files, OTHER ASCII, ASCII Text, Plain Text, ASCII Text language code: en); insert Definition (id: null text: ASCII is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices. Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII, although they support many additional characters. language code: en);

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https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/8e128326-b9cb-44c7-9e6b-4bd950a08753

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