ASCII (American Standard Code for Information interchange) - The worldwide standard for the code numbers

The worldwide standard for the code numbers used by computers to represent all the upper- and lower-case Latin letters, numbers, punctu-ation, etc. There are 128 standard ASCII codes, each of which can be represented by a seven-digit binary number: from 0000000 to 1111111. ASCII is not normally something an e-commerce practitioner would need to know about, but it is frequently referred to by techies.