In ASCII, each character (letter, number, symbol or control character) is represented by a binary value. Extended ASCII is a version that supports representation of 256 different characters.

A file that contains data made up of ASCII characters. It is essentially raw text just like the words you are reading now. Each byte in the file contains one character that conforms to the ...

When any key on a keyboard is pressed, it needs to be converted into a binary number so that it can be processed by the computer and the typed character can appear on the screen.

See binary file and BFT. When an ASCII text file is transferred to another computer, the end-of-line (line break) characters may be converted to a different format if the operating system in the ...