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Each character is assigned a number from 0 to 128 - as well the 26 letters of the [[English alphabet]] in upper and lower case, all common punctuation symbols are assigned codes, as well as [[control characters]], such as Delete and Newline.

Each character is assigned a number from 0 to 128 - as well the 26 letters of the [[English alphabet]] in upper and lower case, all common punctuation symbols are assigned codes, as well as [[control characters]], such as Delete and Newline.

Because there are 128 separate codes, an ASCII character can be represented by a [[signed]] [[byte]] type.

Because there are 128 separate codes, an ASCII character can be represented by a [[signed char]] type in the [[C]] programming language.