Even as EBCDIC (IBM’s 8-bit character encoding demonstrated in the punch card above) and finally ASCII made some headway, the need to encode a growing collection of different characters without ...

Ctrl+Shift+S will open the Save as… dialog. Ctrl+W will close the current Notepad window. Notepad can now open and save files with a path that is longer than 260 characters, also known as MAX_PATH.

The American Code for Information Interchange, or ASCII, is a character encoding format designed for use in transmitting text between computers. ASCII originally contained only 128 English ...