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Glossary – A

Understand typesetters, media designer and printers.

ASCII

Everybody has heard about ASCII or ASCII-Code before.

Again an abbrevation. ASCII is the short form for: American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

ASCII is a so called 7-Bit-Code for letters, numbers and special control-characters, first published in 1963. It matches with its printable characters the American typewriter keyboard.

 !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?

@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[]^_

`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~

Control-characters are characters for tabs, pilcrow etc.

If somebody tells you to send him an ASCII-text, he usually means a completely unformatted text … a plain text.