What is the purpose of ASCII?

Answer 1

The American Standard Code for Information Interchange was made to standardize 128 numeric codes that represent the English letters, Symbols, and Numbers. Any USA keyboard is made with this standard in mind.

Answer 2

ASCII is the acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange and is used to determine which character to display whan a keyboard key is pressed, or code entered.

e.g. The ascii code for the letter "a" is #97 which is binary 1100001

Most people think its like this:

....../ `---___________ _____|] ......

...../_==o;;;;;;;;__ _____.:/

.....), ---.(_(__) /

....// (..) ), ----"

...//___//

..//___//

That's not ascii, That's ascii art. i think this is what you meant.

Answer 3

operating system real time swapping. coexist?replacement ? phase out of coding ASCII and UNICODE.