The second half of the ASCII character set (characters 128 through 255). Designed in the 1960s, ASCII was originally a 7-bit code (0 through 127). To accommodate foreign languages, the DOS code set ...

It’s likely that many Hackaday readers will be aware of UTF-8, the mechanism for incorporating diverse alphabets and other characters such as 💩 emojis. It takes the long-established 7-bit ASCII ...

The character code built into the computer determines how each letter, digit or special character ($, %, #, etc.) is represented in binary code. Fortunately, there are only two methods in wide use: ...

20 useful ALT commands and keyboard shortcuts for Office 365 apps Your email has been sent To get access to the complete set of ASCII characters, users have to know and enter special keyboard shortcut ...

I’m connecting via serial to a Debian 9 box using a DEC vt510. The box has no video hardware, it only has a DB9 serial connection for output. The terminal can emulate a vt100 or vt220. Text generally ...