Computer memory saves all data in digital form. There is no way to store characters directly. Each character has its digital code equivalent: ASCII code (for American Standard Code for Information ...

There's an old engineering joke that says: “Standards are great … everyone should have one!” The problem is that – very often – everyone does. Consider the case of storing textual data inside a ...

In C/C++, we can use the backslash escape sequence to create a string with any embedded ASCII code.<BR><BR>",\x09" is a string with a comma followed by an unprintable character whose ASCII code is ...

The sequential order of ASCII data. In ASCII code, lower case characters follow upper case. True ASCII order would put the words DATA, data and SYSTEM into the following sequence. See ASCII chart.

It’s likely that many Hackaday readers will be aware of UTF-8, the mechanism for incorporating diverse alphabets and other ...

Passwords and passphrases help prevent unauthorized people from accessing files, programs, and other resources. When you create a password or passphrase, you should make it strong, which means it’s ...

There is no standard that says keyboards must map to something and it's up to the OS to interpret what each keycode means. The keycode sent out for the "Z" key on US English QWERTY style layouts may ...

You can use your computer's keyboard to quickly enter currency signs, foreign accents, trademarks and other symbols your business uses frequently. To access these symbols, you must use Windows' ...

Enigmatriz is a digital artist who combines the glyphs, code, characters and symbols of the average keyboard into a plethora ...