Ascii Reference

A concise reference for developer text workflows.

What ASCII is

ASCII defines a set of 128 code points, including control characters, digits, Latin letters, and punctuation. It is historically important to command-line tools and byte-oriented protocols.

Sorting is not always ASCII sorting

TinyDevTools Sort Lines uses JavaScript localeCompare(), not raw ASCII or code-point ordering. Its output should not be described as a bytewise canonical sort.

When exact ordering matters

For reproducible artifacts or protocol data, use the sorting semantics required by that workflow and document the locale or options explicitly.