ASCII

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The meme suggests ASCII, a method of rendering characters using either seven or eight binary digits.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2013

Baudot’s code developed the principle that eventually became the basis for ASCII, or the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, which is the way in which nearly every computer and phone now represents text.

From Slate • Dec. 7, 2012

If this is your intention, make sure that text is sent to you in plain ASCII, or TTY mode.

From The Online World by De Presno, Odd

To take an extreme example, if you're working in Japanese or Arabic, or creating audio files, there is no point in trying to reproduce that in ASCII!

From The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 by Tinsley, Jim

I know it's a bone of contention, but we probably need to explore moving away from ASCII.

From The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 by Tinsley, Jim