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American Standard Code for Information Interchange or ASCII, is a character encoding based on the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that work with text. Most modern character encodings (which support many more characters than did the original) have a historical basis in ASCII.

ASCII includes definitions for 128 characters: 33 are non-printing, mostly obsolete control characters that affect how text is processed; 94 are printable characters (excluding the space). The ASCII character encoding (or a compatible extension) is used on nearly all common computers, especially personal computers and workstations.

OpenOffice.org uses ASCII characters in all the documents that it uses or creates, like text documents.

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