OCR GCSE Computer Science · J277
Paper 1
Revise: Character SetsASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Standard ASCII uses 7-bit codes and has 128 possible codes. It includes uppercase and lowercase English letters, digits, common punctuation and control characters, such as those used to indicate a new line.
- Revise: Bits per Character and Capacity
American Standard Code for Information Interchange: a character set whose original 7-bit codes represent 128 characters. OCR exam questions use 8-bit binary representations of ASCII.