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

The accented characters of several European languages and characters of some other languages were taken into account from 1986 onwards with 8-bit variants of ASCII, also called extended ASCII, that provided sets of 256 characters.

From The eBook is 40 (1971-2011) by Lebert, Marie

You can submit it, but the Posting Team will then consider whether we should also make an ASCII, or perhaps ISO-8859 or Unicode version of it.

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