ASCII, abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices. Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII, although they support many additional characters.1
[1] ASCII, Wikipedia. (2020). https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ASCII&oldid=935468511 (accessed March 10, 2020).