Computer memory saves all data in digital form. There is no way to store characters directly. Each character has its digital code equivalent: ASCII code (for American Standard Code for Information ...

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 ...

The sequential order of ASCII data. In ASCII code, lower case characters follow upper case. True ASCII order would put the words DATA, data and SYSTEM into the following sequence. See ASCII chart.

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 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 ...