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ASCII CHARACTER SET [6 records]

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Record 1 2023-02-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Theory
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
CONT

IRV(International Reference Version) is a "default version" of a character set. It is intended for international communications and also cases when there is no need for national characters or any application-specific characters.... The various versions of IRV are either identical to ASCII [American Standard Code for Information Interchange] or very close to it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie de l'information
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
CONT

Version internationale de référence (VIR). Cette version [d'un ensemble de caractères codés] est destinée à être utilisée lorsqu'il n’est pas nécessaire d'utiliser une version nationale ou une version d'application particulière. En cas d'échange d’informations, la version internationale de référence est supposée être utilisée, à moins qu'un accord particulier n'existe entre l'émetteur des données et leur destinataire.

Spanish

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Record 2 2014-12-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
CONT

The Teletype terminals had a paper tape punch(and reader). The paper tape produced an 8-bit wide set of holes and non-holes.... The choice was to use 7(of the available 8) holes to encode the desired character(128 available-the all null punch, hence the 127 ASCII set). The 8th hole was a parity hole(bit) so the device reading the paper tape would know if the other 7 possible holes were read in error.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tratamiento de la información (Informática)
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Record 3 - external organization data 2009-08-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - ISO/IEC JTC 1 Information Technology Vocabulary
Universal entry(ies)
01.01.13 (19762)
ISO/IEC standard entry number
DEF

finite set of characters that is complete for a given purpose

OBS

ASCII is an example of a character set.

OBS

character set: term and definition standardized by ISO/IEC [ISO/IEC 19762-1:2008].

French

Spanish

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Record 4 2002-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Internet and Telematics
CONT

The first 128 bytes in all these character sets are standardized on the ASCII character set(although there are minor variations in character 127, and character 124 is sometimes C especially on keyboards C mistakenly shown as a broken bar when it should be a solid bar).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Internet et télématique
CONT

Les premiers 128 octets dans tous ces jeux de caractères utilisent la norme ASCII (il y a cependant des variations mineures dans le caractère 127, et le caractère 124 est quelques fois, spécialement sur les claviers, montré en erreur comme une barre brisée alors qu'il devrait être montré comme une barre pleine).

Spanish

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Record 5 2001-11-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
  • Computer Programs and Programming
DEF

The act of changing the representation of data from one format to another, usually with the data being input from a machine-readable source. Reformatting may include the translation or conversion of data values from one character set to another, such as from ASCII to EBCDIC.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
  • Programmes et programmation (Informatique)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tratamiento de la información (Informática)
  • Programas y programación (Informática)
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Record 6 2001-05-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Internet and Telematics
  • Graphic Arts and Printing
CONT

The first 128 bytes in all these character sets are standardized on the ASCII character set(although there are minor variations in character 127, and character 124 is sometimes C especially on keyboards C mistakenly shown as a broken bar when it should be a solid bar).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Internet et télématique
  • Imprimerie et arts graphiques
CONT

Les premiers 128 octets dans tous ces jeux de caractères utilisent la norme ASCII (il y a cependant des variations mineures dans le caractère 127, et le caractère 124 est quelquefois, spécialement sur les claviers, montré en erreur comme une barre brisée alors qu'il devrait être montré comme une barre pleine).

OBS

Terme(s) relevé(s) dans le document «Utilisation des caractères français sur les micro-ordinateurs compatibles IBM».

Spanish

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