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 ...

A control character in a document that represents movement to the next tab stop. In the ASCII character set, a horizontal tab is ASCII 9, and a vertical tab is ASCII 11. See ASCII chart. THIS ...

In communications, a control character that is transmitted to request a response from the receiving station. In ASCII code, the enquiry ("enq") character is hex 05; in EBCDIC, it is 2D. See ASCII ...