Amer­ican Stan­dard Code for Infor­ma­tion Interchange (ASCII)

Char­acter coding con­taining 95 print­able and 33 non-print­able char­ac­ters. The print­able char­ac­ters include the Latin alphabet (A-Z, a-z), the ten Arabic numerals (0-9) as well as some punc­tu­a­tion marks (sen­tence sym­bols, word sym­bols) and other spe­cial characters.

See also: Uni­code