Computer memory saves all data in digital form. There is no way to store characters directly. Each character has its digital code equivalent: ASCII code (for American Standard Code for Information ...

There's an old engineering joke that says: “Standards are great … everyone should have one!” The problem is that – very often – everyone does. Consider the case of storing textual data inside a ...

In C/C++, we can use the backslash escape sequence to create a string with any embedded ASCII code.<BR><BR>",\x09" is a string with a comma followed by an unprintable character whose ASCII code is ...

Computer graphics have come a long way. Some video games today exceed what would have passed for stunning cinema animation only a few years ago. However, it hasn’t always been like this. One of the ...

You can use your computer's keyboard to quickly enter currency signs, foreign accents, trademarks and other symbols your business uses frequently. To access these symbols, you must use Windows' ...

There is no standard that says keyboards must map to something and it's up to the OS to interpret what each keycode means. The keycode sent out for the "Z" key on US English QWERTY style layouts may ...

What would Google Streetview look like in common characters rather than pixels? The Matrix. ASCII Streetview is a project by Teehan+Lax Labs that chooses the more killjoy option. It’s Google ...

'ASCII art ', which reproduces photographs and illustrations by combining letters and symbols, is one of the cultures that is inseparable from the history of the Internet, especially the Japanese ...

Soundslice, a service that allows you to import photos and PDF files of sheet music, digitize them, edit the digitized sheet music, and have them played for practice. The developer of the service, ...