Computer memory saves all data in digital form. There is no way to store characters directly. Each character has its digital code equivalent: ASCII code (for American Standard Code for Information ...

The sequential order of ASCII data. In ASCII code, lower case characters follow upper case. True ASCII order would put the words DATA, data and SYSTEM into the following sequence. See ASCII chart.

There's an old engineering joke that says: “Standards are great … everyone should have one!” The problem is that – very often – everyone does. Consider the case of storing textual data inside a ...

Enigmatriz is a digital artist who combines the glyphs, code, characters and symbols of the average keyboard into a plethora ...

There is no standard that says keyboards must map to something and it's up to the OS to interpret what each keycode means. The keycode sent out for the "Z" key on US English QWERTY style layouts may ...

We've seen how easily weak passwords can be hacked, and we've also discussed how you can easily memorize or automatically generate and fill in secure passwords. Here's a great technique to add an ...

So do some very elaborate and creative works of ASCII art. 2channel is a text-only bulletin board, but users have circumvented that restriction and created a whole new form of illustration, as well as ...

It appears that the particular variety of extended ASCII that I want is actually called Code Page 437 as opposed to the more popular ISO 8859-1. The reason I wasn't seeing the right characters in OS X ...

Many were amazed in 1999 when the Wachowski Brothers released "The Matrix" featuring Keanu Reeves as Neo, who found himself living in a virtual world where humans must fight sentient machines. It ...