ASCII

We all know that computers can understand zeros(0's) and ones(1's) only.
But we are storing files with alphanumeric values and special characters, videos files, audio files etc in computer. Have you ever think about how this is possible ?

We can simply say that by converting into 0's and 1's. But how we can convert all these items into 0's and 1's ?

A method named ASCII is introduced for this purpose. ASCII means American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
ASCII is a 7 bit code. ie, 0-255 digits are there.

On storing any data in a computer, first of all, the computer will  convert that into ASCII. Then we can convert into 0's and 1's.

The ASCII table is given below. From that table, we can find out the ASCII equivalent of a particular character.