Even as EBCDIC (IBM’s 8-bit character encoding demonstrated in the punch card above) and finally ASCII made some headway, the need to encode a growing collection of different characters without ...

The American Standard Code for Information Interchange, or ASCII, is a character encoding format for the electronic transmission of text. Every character is represented by a unique number.

Before Unicode was invented, there were hundreds of different systems, called character encodings, for assigning these numbers.” The Unicode Standard has allowed for global visualization and ...