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ASCII

American character encoding standard
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Summary

ASCII is a character encoding[1]. ASCII has Wikipedia articles in 84 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

Key Facts

  • ASCII is in the country of United States[3].
  • ASCII's instance of is recorded as character encoding[4].
  • ASCII's instance of is recorded as coded character set[5].
  • ASCII's instance of is recorded as Unicode range[6].
  • ASCII's instance of is recorded as technical standard[7].
  • ASCII was followed by ISO/IEC 8859[8].
  • ASCII was followed by ISO/IEC 646[9].
  • ASCII's Commons category is recorded as ASCII[10].
  • ASCII's language of work or name is recorded as English[11].
  • ASCII's said to be the same as is recorded as Basic Latin[12].
  • ASCII comprises C0 control code[13].
  • ASCII's topic's main category is recorded as Category:ASCII[14].
  • ASCII's Commons gallery is recorded as ASCII[15].
  • ASCII's described by source is recorded as RFC 20: ASCII format for Network Interchange[16].
  • ASCII's official name is recorded as American Standard Code for Information Interchange[17].
  • ASCII's standards body is recorded as American National Standards Institute[18].
  • ASCII's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/ascii[19].
  • ASCII's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/tags/ascii[20].
  • ASCII's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://unix.stackexchange.com/tags/ascii[21].
  • ASCII's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/ascii[22].
  • ASCII's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/tags/ascii[23].
  • ASCII's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://electronics.stackexchange.com/tags/ascii[24].
  • ASCII's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://gis.stackexchange.com/tags/ascii[25].
  • ASCII's used by is recorded as ASCII art[26].
  • ASCII's used by is recorded as ASCII art[27].

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Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include character encoding[4], coded character set[5], Unicode range[6], and technical standard[7].

Use and Application

ASCII comprises C0 control code[13]. Recorded used by include ASCII art[26].

Why It Matters

ASCII has Wikipedia articles in 84 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11w ago · Spiral6800 · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Osdev article id → 2751
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Osdev article id: 2751, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/299326290|ASCII (#299326290)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8178|OSDev articles]] #mix'n'matc"
  2. 16w ago · Spiral6800 · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Icannwiki page id → ASCII
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Icannwiki page id: ASCII, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/294321889|ASCII (#294321889)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8064|ICANNWiki]] #mix'n'match"
  3. 18w ago · HelloImSteven · 2026-06-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Foldoc id → American+Standard+Code+for+Information+Interchange
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Foldoc id: ASCII, import FOLDOC ID ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/wikibase-cli/f6585e22ab8ad/|details]])"
  4. 18w ago · KarinAyv · 2026-06-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Used by → ASCII art, ASCII art
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Used by: ASCII art"
  5. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:ASCII
    Microsoft academic id (discontinued) → 196832560
    Encyclopædia britannica online id → topic/ASCII
    Wikidata description → American character encoding standard
    + 53 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007546943005171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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