ascender
<text>
A lowercase letter that extends above the "x-height" (the height of the letter "x"), such as "d", "t", or "h". Also used to denote the part of the letter extending above the x-height.
Compare descender.Last updated: 1998-03-27
ASCI
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Did you mean ASCII?
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information InterchangeASCII art
<graphics>
(Or "character graphics", "ASCII graphics") The fine art of drawing diagrams using the ASCII character set (mainly "|-/\+").
See also boxology. Here is a serious example: o----)||(--+--|<----+ +---------o + D O
L )||( | | | C U
A I )||( +-->|-+ | +-\/\/-+--o - T
C N )||( | | | | P
E )||( +-->|-+--)---+--)|--+-o U
)||( | | | GND T
o----)||(--+--|<----+----------+
A power supply consisting of a full wave rectifier
circuit feeding a capacitor input filter circuit
Figure 1.
And here are some very silly examples:
|\/\/\/| __/| _ |\_/| ___
| | \ o.O| ACK! / \_ |` '| _/ \
| | =(_)= THPHTH! / \/ \/ \
| (o)(o) U / \
C _) () \/\/\/\ ___ /\/\/\/
| ,___| (oo) \/ \/
| / \/-------\ U (__)
/____\ || | \ /---V `v'- oo )
/ \ ||---W|| * * |--| || |`. |_/\
//-o-\\
__---=======---__
====_\ /.. ..\ /_==== Klingons rule OK!
// ---\O/--- \\
\_\ /_/
_
...---'-----`---...
_===============================
,----------------._/' `---...___...---'
(___||_) . . ,--'
/ /.---' `/
'--------_- - - - - _/
`--------'
Figure 2.
There is an important subgenre of ASCII art that puns on the
standard character names in the fashion of a rebus.
+--------------------------------------------------------+
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| ^^^^^^^ B ^^^^^^^^^ |
| ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
+--------------------------------------------------------+
"A Bee in the Carrot Patch"
Figure 3.
Within humorous ASCII art, there is, for some reason, an
entire flourishing subgenre of pictures of silly cows. One is
shown in Figure 2; here are three more:
() () (__)
(\/) ($$) (**)
/-------\/ /-------\/ /-------\/
/ | 666 || / |=====|| / | ||
* ||----|| * ||----|| * ||----||
~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~
Satanic cow This cow is a Yuppie Cow in love
Figure 4.
http://gagme.wwa.com/~boba/scarecrow.html.
Last updated: 1996-02-06
ASCIIbetical order
/as'kee-be'-t*-kl or'dr/ Used to indicate that data is sorted in ASCII collated order rather than alphabetical order. The main difference is that, in ASCII, all the upper case letters come before any of the lower case letters so, e.g., "Z" comes before "a".
[Jargon File]Last updated: 1999-04-08
ASCIIbonics
<chat>
(From ASCII and Ebonics) A style of text communication in English which is most common on talk systems such as irc. Its notable characteristics are:
Typing all in lowercase (and occasionally all in uppercase). Copious use of abbreviations of the sort "u" for "you" "1" for "one" (and therefore "some1" for "someone", "ne1" for "anyone"), "2" for "to", "r" for "are", etc. A general lack of punctuation, except for strings of question marks and exclamation marks. Common use of the idiom "m or f?", meant to elicit a statement of the listener's gender. Typical extended discourse in ASCIIbonics: "hey wasup ne1 want 2 cyber?" "m or f?" ASCIIbonics is similar to the way B1FF talked, although B1FF used more punctuation (lots more), and used all uppercase, rather than all lowercase. What's more, B1FF was only interested in warez, and so never asked "m or f?". It has been widely observed that some of the purest examples of ASCIIbonics come from non-native speakers of English. The phenomenon of ASCIIbonics predates by several years the use of the word "ASCIIbonics", as the word could only have been coined in or after late 1996, when "Ebonics" was first used in the US media to denote the US English dialects known in the linguistic literature as "Black Vernacular English".Last updated: 1997-06-21
ASCII character table
The following list gives the octal, decimal and hexadecimal ASCII codes for each character along with its printed representation and common name(s).
Oct Dec Hex Name
000 0 0x00 NUL
001 1 0x01 SOH, Control-A
002 2 0x02 STX, Control-B
003 3 0x03 ETX, Control-C
004 4 0x04 EOT, Control-D
005 5 0x05 ENQ, Control-E
006 6 0x06 ACK, Control-F
007 7 0x07 BEL, Control-G
010 8 0x08 BS, backspace, Control-H
011 9 0x09 HT, tab, Control-I
012 10 0x0a LF, line feed, newline, Control-J
013 11 0x0b VT, Control-K
014 12 0x0c FF, form feed, NP, Control-L
015 13 0x0d CR, carriage return, Control-M
016 14 0x0e SO, Control-N
017 15 0x0f SI, Control-O
020 16 0x10 DLE, Control-P
021 17 0x11 DC1, XON, Control-Q
022 18 0x12 DC2, Control-R
023 19 0x13 DC3, XOFF, Control-S
024 20 0x14 DC4, Control-T
025 21 0x15 NAK, Control-U
026 22 0x16 SYN, Control-V
027 23 0x17 ETB, Control-W
030 24 0x18 CAN, Control-X
031 25 0x19 EM, Control-Y
032 26 0x1a SUB, Control-Z
033 27 0x1b ESC, escape
034 28 0x1c FS
035 29 0x1d GS
036 30 0x1e RS
037 31 0x1f US
040 32 0x20 space
041 33 0x21 !, exclamation mark
042 34 0x22 ", double quote
043 35 0x23 #, hash
044 36 0x24 $, dollar
045 37 0x25 %, percent
046 38 0x26 &, ampersand
047 39 0x27 ', quote
050 40 0x28 (, open parenthesis
051 41 0x29 ), close parenthesis
052 42 0x2a *, asterisk
053 43 0x2b +, plus
054 44 0x2c ,, comma
055 45 0x2d -, minus
056 46 0x2e ., full stop
057 47 0x2f /, oblique stroke
060 48 0x30 0, zero
061 49 0x31 1
062 50 0x32 2
063 51 0x33 3
064 52 0x34 4
065 53 0x35 5
066 54 0x36 6
067 55 0x37 7
070 56 0x38 8
071 57 0x39 9
072 58 0x3a :, colon
073 59 0x3b ;, semicolon
074 60 0x3c <, less than
075 61 0x3d =, equals
076 62 0x3e >, greater than
077 63 0x3f ?, question mark
0100 64 0x40 @, commercial at
0101 65 0x41 A
0102 66 0x42 B
0103 67 0x43 C
0104 68 0x44 D
0105 69 0x45 E
0106 70 0x46 F
0107 71 0x47 G
0110 72 0x48 H
0111 73 0x49 I
0112 74 0x4a J
0113 75 0x4b K
0114 76 0x4c L
0115 77 0x4d M
0116 78 0x4e N
0117 79 0x4f O
0120 80 0x50 P
0121 81 0x51 Q
0122 82 0x52 R
0123 83 0x53 S
0124 84 0x54 T
0125 85 0x55 U
0126 86 0x56 V
0127 87 0x57 W
0130 88 0x58 X
0131 89 0x59 Y
0132 90 0x5a Z
0133 91 0x5b [, open square bracket
0134 92 0x5c \, backslash
0135 93 0x5d ], close square bracket
0136 94 0x5e ^, caret
0137 95 0x5f _, underscore
0140 96 0x60 `, back quote
0141 97 0x61 a
0142 98 0x62 b
0143 99 0x63 c
0144 100 0x64 d
0145 101 0x65 e
0146 102 0x66 f
0147 103 0x67 g
0150 104 0x68 h
0151 105 0x69 i
0152 106 0x6a j
0153 107 0x6b k
0154 108 0x6c l
0155 109 0x6d m
0156 110 0x6e n
0157 111 0x6f o
0160 112 0x70 p
0161 113 0x71 q
0162 114 0x72 r
0163 115 0x73 s
0164 116 0x74 t
0165 117 0x75 u
0166 118 0x76 v
0167 119 0x77 w
0170 120 0x78 x
0171 121 0x79 y
0172 122 0x7a z
0173 123 0x7b {, open curly bracket
0174 124 0x7c |, vertical bar
0175 125 0x7d }, close curly bracket
0176 126 0x7e ~, tilde
0177 127 0x7f delete
See NUL, SOH, STX, ETX, ETX, EOT, ENQ, ACK,
BEL, BS, HT, line feed, VT, FF, CR, SO, SI,
DLE, XON, DC1, DC2, DC3, DC4, NAK, SYN, ETB,
CAN, EM, SUB, ESC, FS, GS, RS, US, space,
exclamation mark, double quote, hash, dollar,
percent, ampersand, quote, open parenthesis, close
parenthesis, asterisk, plus, comma, minus, full
stop, oblique stroke, colon, semicolon, less than,
equals, greater than, question mark, commercial at,
open square bracket, backslash, close square bracket,
caret, underscore, back quote, open curly bracket,
vertical bar, close curly bracket, tilde, delete.
Last updated: 1996-06-24
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