03-29-2010, 07:31 PM
The American Standard Code for Information Interchange(ASCII) is a character-encoding scheme based on the ordering of the English alphabet. 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 actually designed for use with teletypes and so the descriptions are somewhat obscure. There are ASCII Generator softwares also available on the internet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text.