Characters and Other Codes (2)
ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
- Most widely used character code.
- See Table 1.11 for 7-bit ASCII code.
- The eighth bit is often used for error detection (parity bit)
- Example: ASCII code representation of the word Digital
Character Binary Code Hexadecimal Code
D 1000100 44
i 1101001 69
g 1100111 67
i 1101001 69
t 1110100 74
a 1100001 61
l 1101100 6C