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Is binary to text different than ASCII?
Yes
What's the difference?
Computer fag here.
Binary simply means the 1's and 0's ALL computers use to communicate. Ergo, there is a string of 1s and 0s for each letter making up each word you are reading.
ASCII is a reserved string of codes within the binary language that computers identify for specific characters that cannot be changed.
Hope that helps.
No, unfortunately it doesn't help. I am a software developer, so I'm not ignorant about what binary is, in fact in school I got pretty good at doing arithmetic in binary and hexadecimal (even octal); my question isn't what binary is, it's what is this "Binary to Text" thing these people are talking about as though it's different than literally just taking a binary string and interpreting it as ASCII. These people are saying that "Binary to Text" is different than ASCII, which makes me think they're referring to some particular encoding scheme, but really it just seems to be that they don't really know what ASCII UTF-8 is.
https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/binary
Again, how is that different than ASCII other than just being a general description of binary whereas ASCII is a particular encoding?
I don't know the answer but I would assume BInary means a preference for text AND Ascii. That's what the box in the livingroom says, that BI means both.
ASCII is just a particular encoding scheme for binary, I'm not sure what a "preference" for text means here.