ASCII stands for American
Standard Code for Information Interchange. Computers can
only understand numbers, so an ASCII code is the
numerical representation of a character such as 'a' or
'@' or an action of some sort. ASCII was developed a
long time ago and now the non-printing characters are
rarely used for their original purpose. Below is the
ASCII character table and this includes descriptions of
the first 32 non-printing characters. ASCII was actually
designed for use with teletypes and so the descriptions
are somewhat obscure. If someone says they want your CV
however in ASCII format, all this means is they want
'plain' text with no formatting such as tabs, bold or
underscoring - the raw format that any computer can
understand. This is usually so they can easily import
the file into their own applications without issues.
Notepad.exe creates ASCII text, or in MS Word you can
save a file as 'text only' |
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