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'''ASCII''' stands for <i>American Standard Code For Information Interchange</i>. It was first created in 1963 and is the basis for standardized data encoding methods such as [[Unicode]] that almost all computers follow today. The original ASCII standard defines 128 bytesdifferent values, each of which represent different characters, such as the alphabet, numbers, punctuation, etc. Unlike UTF-8, every ASCII character is exactly one byte long, making routines that use ASCII very easy to write.