Computer memory saves all data in digital form. There is no way to store characters directly. Each character has its digital code equivalent: ASCII code (for American Standard Code for Information ...

A set of HTML "escape codes" used to render special characters and foreign letters. Ampersand codes are preceded with an ampersand, followed by a mnemonic name or their ASCII number and ended with a ...

The keyboard key that inserts a blank space into a document. Every space occupies one byte in a file, and contiguous blank spaces are the easiest characters to compress. The blank space is a decimal ...