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fix(datatypes): add caption to ascii table
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tolstenko committed Sep 8, 2023
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Expand Up @@ -60,7 +60,10 @@ It is a 7 bit table, so it can represent `2^7` or `128` different characters. Th

The printable chacacters starts at number 32 and goes up to 126. The first 32 characters are control characters and the rest are printable.

![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/ASCII-Table-wide.svg/875px-ASCII-Table-wide.svg.png)
<figure markdown>
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/ASCII-Table-wide.svg/1024px-ASCII-Table-wide.svg.png){align=center}
<figcaption>ASCII Table</figcaption>
</figure>

As you can imagine, this table is not enough to represent all the characters in the world(latin, chinese, japanese, etc). So there are other tables that extend the ASCII table to 8 bits, or even 16 bits.

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