title: Sending and reading ASCII values in pySerial
body: <p>I am trying to communicating with a scale that does communication in ASCII format using python and pySerial. I have no experience how ever using ASCII format. So I have basic questions. 
  How would I send a a character T for example using pySerial and terminate it with CRLF using ASCII format? 
  I tried </p>
  
  <pre><code> myserialport.write('TCRLF')
   myserialport.write('T\r\n')
   myserialport.write('T\n\r')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am also trying to read data from the scale which I would expect to be in a form of '208.01 g' for example. But when I use </p>
  
  <pre><code>myserialport.read(10)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>or </p>
  
  <pre><code>myserialport.readline(10)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I get this from the scale</p>
  
  <pre><code>]ëýýÿ]W
  ÿ]u_u]ÿ]uÕ
  ýWýWë]uÝõW
  ÿ½õÿ½WW]Ýý
  WýW]Wÿ½ÿ×ë
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>From googling it seems as pySerial should receive data in ASCII format by default, and send it as well...but I am lost as to why its not working. Any help would be appreciated.</p>