feat: improvements on glossary ASCII (#34112)

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 {{GlossarySidebar}}
 
-**ASCII** (_American Standard Code for Information Interchange_) is a character encoding standard using 7-bit to represent 128 characters used by computers for converting letters, numbers, punctuation, and control codes into digital form.
+**ASCII** (_American Standard Code for Information Interchange_) is a {{glossary("character encoding")}} standard using 7-bit to represent 128
+{{glossary("character", "characters")}} used by computers and other devices for encoding letters, numbers, punctuation, and control codes into digital form.
 
-The first 33 ASCII code points are non-printing control codes including the carriage return, line feed, tab, and several obsolete non-printable codes stemming from its origin of representing telegraph codes. The other 95 are printable characters, including digits (0-9), lowercase (a-z) and uppercase (A-Z) letters, and punctuation symbols.
+The first 33 ASCII {{glossary("code point", "code points")}} are non-printing control codes including the carriage return, line feed, tab, and several obsolete non-printable codes stemming from its origin of representing telegraph codes. The other 95 are printable characters, including digits (0-9), lowercase (a-z) and uppercase (A-Z) letters, and punctuation symbols.
 
-Many computer systems instead use {{glossary("Unicode")}}, which has millions of code points, but the first 128 of these are the same as the ASCII set. {{Glossary("UTF-8")}} superseded ASCII on the Web in 2007.
+In the modern age, most computer systems use {{glossary("Unicode")}} instead, which is an extension of ASCII, supporting millions of code points. {{Glossary("UTF-8")}} superseded ASCII on the Web in 2007.
 
 ## See also
 
 - [ASCII](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII) on Wikipedia
-- [RFC 20](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc20) on IETF
+- {{rfc("20")}}
+- Glossary
+ - {{glossary("Unicode")}}
+ - {{glossary("UTF-8")}}