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ASCII

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ASCII is a cost-driven, committee-built encoding that prioritised transmission efficiency and hardware simplicity over linguistic coverage. Its rigid separation of control and graphic codes enabled early parsing — but its 28 reserved slots and lack of international support created immediate pressure for extension.