ASCII, acronym for “American Standard Code for Information Interchange”, was developed in the 1960’s but is still in important use today.  (No matter what people say about RS-232, it’s still the appropriate protocol to use sometimes AND it’s still very reliable!)   More often than not, we need access to the ASCII tables when we’re coding our applications in C#.  Therefore, the following is a handy reference that we’d like to share with fellow engineers.   The standard table has 128 characters, using 7-bits with the 8th bit as a parity check.  The term “Extended ASCII Code” is somewhat unclear,
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