I need to write some tests for a system speaking FIX protocol, written in Java. Standard FIX uses ASCII 0x01 as a delimiter on the wire. I find myself struggling to express those FIX messages with a ...

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 ...

There's an old engineering joke that says: “Standards are great … everyone should have one!” The problem is that – very often – everyone does. Consider the case of storing textual data inside a ...

Virtually all. It is valid keyboard input. Whether it displays a character as a result or performs an action of some kind depends on the software in question. Most text editors will accept ascii ...