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American Standard Code for Information Interchange

Title English: 
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
Acronym English: 
ASCII
Title Arabic: 
النظام الأمريكي الموحد لتبادل المعلومات
Synonym Arabic: 
الترميز المعياري الامريكي لتبادل المعلومات
Definition Arabic: 
ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Computers can only understand numbers, so an ASCII code is the numerical representation of a character such as 'a' or '@' or an action of some sort.
Domain: 
International Instruments
Subject: 
Corporate Names/Bodies
Provenance: 
United States of America
InformationType: 
Title
SourceSymbol: 
E/ESCWA/ICTD/2009/7