What are ASCII characters?

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What are ASCII characters?

Part of the WPA set-up says to *"Type a password of 8 to 63 ASCII characters"* am I correctly assuming this means characters like... ~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ + | } { And does that mean I cannot use "letters or numbers" Or am I just nuts and need you to assist me with a correct answer? Thanks

G4

Posted on Sep 19, 2009 8:05 PM

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Answer 1

Tesserax

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Sep 19, 2009 8:10 PM in response to theBman

ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Computers can only understand numbers, so an ASCII code is the numerical representation of a character such as 'a' or '@' or an action of some sort.

ASCII can represent numbers, letters, or symbols.

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Answer 2

Duane

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Sep 19, 2009 8:14 PM in response to theBman

If you go to http://www.asciitable.com/ you can see all the ASCII characters in red.

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Answer 3

theBman Author

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Sep 19, 2009 8:22 PM in response to Tesserax

Thanks to ya both. Ya learn something new everyday.

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