ASC()
Syntax. ASC(text)
Definition. This function converts double-byte characters into single-byte characters.
Arguments
text (required). The text or the reference to a cell that contains the text you want to convert. If the text doesn’t contain double-byte characters, the text is not changed.
Background. Use this function to convert double-byte characters into single-byte characters. Text data are saved, read, and transferred by using code pages. Each character is assigned a code (a numeric value). Single-byte code pages consist of only 256 characters. Double-byte code pages were developed to accommodate Asian languages, but this conversion function is of little relevance because most systems use the Unicode standards. Unicode is a universal character ...
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