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

Control and meta, side by side, Augmented ASCII, nine bits wide!

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.

For practical purposes, 7-bit texts are plain ASCII; 8-bit texts have accented letters.

From The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 by Tinsley, Jim

The English pound symbol cannot be expressed in ASCII, so 25 pounds is rendered as 25L.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas