ASCII

Da ein Computer nur mit Zahlen umgehen kann, muss er auch jedem Buchstaben einen bestimmten Zahlenwert zuweisen, um ihn abspeichern zu können. Hierfür gibt es unterschiedliche Zuordnungsmethoden, die auch als Zeichencode bezeichnet werden.

Der verbreitetste nennt sich ASCII [aski] (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) und sorgt dafür, dass verschiedene Computersysteme  intern weitgehend den gleichen Zahlencode für dieselben Buchstaben nutzen. Lediglich Sonderzeichen wie ß und die Umlaute oder das Zeilenende unterscheiden sich, sodass beim Textaustausch zwischen gänzlich unterschiedlichen Computersystemen eine Umwandlung nötig ist.

Man kann natürlich auch damit Quatsch machen, was man dann ASCII-Art nennt..

|\---/|
| o_o |
 \_^_/

          _            _.,----,
 __  _.-._ / '-.        -  ,._  \) 
|  `-)_   '-.   \       / < _ )/" }
/__    '-.   \   '-, ___(c-(6)=(6)
 , `'.    `._ '.  _,'   >\    "  )
 :;;,,'-._   '---' (  ( "/`. -='/
;:;;:;;,  '..__    ,`-.`)'- '--'
;';:;;;;;'-._ /'._|   Y/   _/' \
      '''"._ F    |  _/ _.'._   `\
             L    \   \/     '._  \
      .-,-,_ |     `.  `'---,  \_ _|
      //    'L    /  \,   ("--',=`)7
     | `._       : _,  \  /'`-._L,_'-._
     '--' '-.\__/ _L   .`'         './/
                 [ (  /
                  ) `{
                  \__)

Oder sogar sowas

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