Yes, ‘a’ and ‘A’ are different characters in ASCII encoding. The ASCII code for the lowercase letter ‘a’ is 97, while the ASCII code for the uppercase letter ‘A’ is 65.

Although they represent the same letter in the English alphabet, they are treated as distinct characters in computer systems. This means that if you enter ‘a’ and ‘A’ into a computer program, they will be recognized as two different characters with different ASCII values.