The most commonly used standard data code to represent alphabetical, numerical and punctuation characters used in Electronic Data Processing system is called.
The most commonly used standard data code to represent alphabetical, numerical and punctuation characters used in Electronic Data Processing system is called ASCII.
ASCII abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices. Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII, although they support many additional characters.
ASCII is the traditional name for the encoding system; the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) prefers the updated name US-ASCII, which clarifies that this system was developed in the US and based on the typographical symbols predominantly in use there.