American Standard Code for Information Interchange is referred to as ASCII. An ASCII code is the numerical representation of a character, such as “a” or “@,” or an action of some kind because computers can only interpret numbers. Since ASCII was created so long ago, non-printing characters are now seldom ever utilized for what they were intended for. The first 32 non-printing ASCII characters are described in the table below along with other information. Since ASCII was initially created for teletypes, the descriptions are a little hazy. However, if someone requests your CV in ASCII format, all that is meant is that they want “plain” text without any formatting, such as tabs, bold, or underlining – the basic format that any computer can read. Typically, this is true.