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designed only for _US_ English -- missing the Pound symbol at the very least, plus some ligature-like-characters which are/were common in British English
'''ASCII''' is a common historical [[character encoding]], designed to represent English text in digital form. The acronym stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Most of the character encodings in common current use are [[proper superset]]s of ASCII: these include the [[ISO 8859]] family of encodings, the [[Windows 1252]] code page and the [[UTF-8]] encoding of the [[Unicode]] character set.
'''ASCII''' is a common historical [[character encoding]], designed to represent US English text in digital form. The acronym stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Most of the character encodings in common current use are [[proper superset]]s of ASCII: these include the [[ISO 8859]] family of encodings, the [[Windows 1252]] code page and the [[UTF-8]] encoding of the [[Unicode]] character set.
Each character is assigned a number from 0 to 127. As well the 26 letters of the [[English alphabet]] in upper and lower case, many common punctuation symbols are assigned codes, as well as [[control characters]], such as backspace, carriage return and linefeed.
Each character is assigned a number from 0 to 127. As well the 26 letters of the [[English alphabet]] in upper and lower case, many common punctuation symbols are assigned codes, as well as [[control characters]], such as backspace, carriage return and linefeed.