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ASCII, Extended ASCII and Unicode

Introduction

Converting text to binary

Converting text to binary is a simple process. You simply look up the decimal value for the character in the ASCII table below, and then convert that value from decimal to binary, like we did last lesson.

Example – hello

ascii-hello-example

ASCII Table

DO NOT USE THE HEX COLUMN!!!

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ASCII Table

Binary to Text

Practice

ASCII

Extended ASCII

Unicode

Resources