CGX#4: Ascii Encoding (Encoding, Training, CGX)
ASCII Encoding
Hello future Hackers,
We have created the next lesson.
This time we talk about ascii encoding.
Again, the challenge is more informative and gives no points.
Happy Challenging!
- gizmore and x
We have created the next lesson.
This time we talk about ascii encoding.
Again, the challenge is more informative and gives no points.
Happy Challenging!
- gizmore and x
Problem CGX#4
This lesson has an interactive problem:
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The problem is randomly generated and is bound to your session.
Good Luck!
The WeChall Team
72 101 108 108 111 32 71 117 101 115 116 46 32 83 111 108 117 116 105 111 110 58 32 105 71 102 68 110 118 102 81
The problem is randomly generated and is bound to your session.
Good Luck!
The WeChall Team
Computers can only work with numbers.
We need a mapping, for converting numbers to written characters, to display text to humans.
The [ASCII](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII)
[encoding](../README.md)
was one of the first encoding to solve this problem.
## ASCII
- 1 byte per character.
- Original 7 bit + 1 bit [checksum]()
- [ASCII Table](https://www.asciitable.com/)
## Other encodings
- C64 Screencode (A=1, B=2, ...)
- 8bit ASCII / extended ASCII
- Win ISO
- Unicode with UTF 8/16/32
## PHP Implementation
- number to letter (chr())
- letter to number (ord())
- string encodings in PHP