README

Char-Drawer:

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This program lets you draw images in the form of characters. The entire ASCII character set is available and can be selected individually. Bitmaps can also be imported, although the conversion is only partially calculated.

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Editor Result Fontname (Terminal):

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ASCII an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for representing a particular set of 95 (English language focused) printable and 33 control characters – a total of 128 code points. The set of available punctuation had significant impact on the syntax of computer languages and text markup. ASCII hugely influenced the design of character sets used by modern computers; for example, the first 128 code points of Unicode are the same as ASCII.

Online Drawers:

• https://asciiflow.com/#/
• https://kirilllive.github.io/ASCII_Art_Paint/ascii_paint.html

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ASCii Chars:

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ASCII encodes each code-point as a value from 0 to 127 – storable as a seven-bit integer. Ninety-five code-points are printable, including digits 0 to 9, lowercase letters a to z, uppercase letters A to Z, and commonly used punctuation symbols. For example, the letter i is represented as 105 (decimal). Also, ASCII specifies 33 non-printing control codes which originated with Teletype devices, most of which are now obsolete. The control characters that are still commonly used include carriage return, line feed, and tab.

ASCII lacks code-points for characters with diacritical marks and therefore does not directly support terms or names such as résumé, jalapeño, or René. But, depending on hardware and software support, some diacritical marks can be rendered by overwriting a letter with a backtick (`) or tilde (~).

Overview

ASCII is binary code used by electronic equipment to handle text using the English alphabet, numbers, and other common symbols. ASCII is an abbreviation for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. ASCII was developed in the 1960s and was based on earlier codes used by telegraph systems.

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The 95 graphic ASCII characters, numbered 32 to 126 (decimal):

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Applications

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Standard ASCII is still commonly used, particularly in computer software and HTML files. Until 2010, it was the standard for URLs. Often a web site that has fields for entering text will only take ASCII text. Any special markups for bold or centered text, etc. will show up incorrectly.

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Extended ASCII

ASCII does not have diacritics (marks that are added to a letter, like the dots (umlauts) above vowels in German, or the tilde (~) above the 'n' for the 'ñ' used in Spanish). It was only meant for English and doesn't work well for most other languages. Some English words borrowed from other languages use these marks as well, like resumé (see Appendix:English words with diacritics).

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Have fun with ASCii!