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Question: the characters entered through keyboard gets converted to equivalent ASCII code & stored on RAM in the binary form. What is exact procedure to happens on hardware that converts the ASCII value to equivalent binary form?
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| July 07, 2009 08:03:09 |
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| adaptiveint |
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RE: the characters entered through keyboard gets converted to equivalent ASCII code & stored on RAM in the binary form. What is exact procedure to happens on hardware that converts the ASCII value to equivalent binary form?
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| The keyboard itself sends a binary signal to the keyboard driver of the OS, which then interprets the signal from the keyboard as the OS sees fit - in Windows, these values are generally stored as 2-byte ANSI Unicode values based on the language code page in use. |
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