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 ...

The book, “The Martian” by Andy Weir demonstrates jaw-dropping science and engineering principles, which makes it one of the best pure sci-fi novels of the year ...

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 ...

January 13, 2011 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google ASCII characters are part of the US-ASCII code, which is the numerical representation of a character such as 'a ...

American Standard Code for Information Interchange, commonly known as ASCII, is a computer protocol that allows users to display more text symbols than you find on your keyboard. Hearts, happy faces ...

THE notion of assigning specific number values to letters dates back as least as far as 700 BC. According to an inscription from his reign, Sargon II, an Assyrian king, built a perimeter wall around ...

And, of course, they are often used to create pornography. Section of Ingrid (Textfiles) Though it is still around today, ASCII art reached the zenith of its popularity before the web. It was the ...