A file that contains data made up of ASCII characters. It is essentially raw text just like the words you are reading now. Each byte in the file contains one character that conforms to the ...

The character code built into the computer determines how each letter, digit or special character ($, %, #, etc.) is represented in binary code. Fortunately, there are only two methods in wide use ...

To represent text in a computer system, we give each character its own special number. This number is called its code. We can then store this code in the computer using binary ones and zeros.