Explain computers are able to take words entered on a keyboard translate them into digital information.

I'd like to take you back to the early days of computers and ASCII.
This was a code that encoded characters into 8 binary digits.

There were no fonts, languages, sizes etc. Just basic encoding.

ASCII - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii)

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Computers are digital electronics that accepts data ,process , store and retrive it .the data first converted to binary digit (bit ).this bits are 0 & 1 ,which understandable by the computer.

A computer is nothing more than a series of switches. Each switch has two states; on and off. This is represented using the binary numbering system where 0 = off and 1 = on. Each switch is referred to as a bit.

There is then software that reads the bits and translates them into instructions that the CPU processes. Those instructions may be simply to display a character on the keyboard or to perform some calculation or other action.