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 ...

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 ...

January 13, 2011 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google ASCII characters are part of the US-ASCII code, which is the numerical representation of a character such as 'a ...

American Standard Code for Information Interchange, commonly known as ASCII, is a computer protocol that allows users to display more text symbols than you find on your keyboard. Hearts, happy faces ...

YouTuber Marc Verdiell, a.k.a. CuriousMarc, has turned a 1930s teletype machine into a Linux terminal. To do that, he had to make circuitry and programming that translates five-bit Baudot code into ...

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' ...

i'm sure you've all seen this before, but it's just so neat tht i thought it warrants being posted again (as i haven't seen it yet here).<P>if this is redundant, please lock<P>DVD in ascii<P>(ps, i ...