Encoding characters with 7-bit ASCII
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From characters to binary

From characters to binary

Flowchart showing character A, space character, and exclamation mark converting to ASCII denary codes and then 7-bit binary patterns, with 7-bit place values labelled 64 32 16 8 4 2 1

A character is one item of text, such as a letter, digit, punctuation mark, space, or a non-printing instruction. Computers store the code for each character in binary, not the shape you see on screen.

Encoding characters with 7-bit ASCII Lesson

  1. GCSE
  2. /Computer Science
  3. /Encoding characters with 7-bit ASCII