Meaning of ascii code (what is it, concept and definition)

What is ascii code:

The ascii code is an alphanumeric encoding table of the Latin alphabet so that computer systems can store texts.

The name of the ascii code comes from the English acronym American Standard Code for Information Interchange , which translates into Spanish as: American (American) Standard Code for Information Exchange.

The ascii code is arranged in a table where each number or combination of numbers corresponds to a capital or lowercase letter, numbers and punctuation symbols adapted to the English language.

In computing, the importance of ascii code lies in that it allowed computers to store texts, since computer systems are only capable of storing numbers. With the character encoding system, systems could translate the numbers into a letter or symbol and then save them in memory.

The first ascii code corresponded to a 7-bit code that generates 128 characters, since computers work with a binary system. Over time, the table and bits expanded, but did not cover characters from other languages, such as Spanish, for example.

Due to the limitation of ascii code, today it is used for web pages and document codes such as: Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1), UTF-8 and UTF-16.