ASCII

ASCII table and description ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Computers can only understand numbers, so an ASCII code is the numerical representation of a character such as 'a' or '@' or an action of some sort. ASCII was developed a long time ago and now the non-printing characters are rarely used for their original purpose. Below is the ASCII character table and this includes descriptions of the first 32 non-printing characters. ASCII was actually designed for use with teletypes and so the descriptions are somewhat obscure. If someone says they want your CV however in ASCII format, all this means is they want 'plain' text with no formatting such as tabs, bold or underscoring - the raw format that any computer can understand. This is usually so they can easily import the file into their own applications without issues. Notepad.exe creates ASCII text, or in MS Word you can save a file as 'text only'

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Extended ASCII Codes

128	129	130	131	132	133	134	135	136	137	138	139	140	141	142	143	144	145	146	147
Ç	ü	é	â	ä	à	å	ç	ê	ë	è	ï	î	ì	Ä	Å	É	æ	Æ	ô
148	149	150	151	152	153	154	155	156	157	158	159	160	161	162	163	164	165	166	167
ö	ò	û	ù	ÿ	Ö	Ü	ø	£	Ø	×	ƒ	á	í	ó	ú	ñ	Ñ	ª	º
168	169	170	171	172	173	174	175	176	177	178	179	180	181	182	183	184	185	186	187
¿	®	¬	½	¼	¡	«	»	_	_	_	¦	¦	Á	Â	À	©	¦	¦	+
188	189	190	191	192	193	194	195	196	197	198	199	200	201	202	203	204	205	206	207
+	¢	¥	+	+	-	-	+	-	+	ã	Ã	+	+	-	-	¦