A file that contains data made up of ASCII characters. It is essentially raw ... databases and other applications, there are binary codes in the header and interspersed throughout the file that ...

One of the standards in common use is the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII). close ASCIIAmerican Standard Code for Information Interchange. A 7-bit character set used for ...

In ASCII, each character (letter, number, symbol or control character) is represented by a binary value. Extended ASCII is a version that supports representation of 256 different characters.