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ASCII(7) Linux Programmer's Manual ASCII(7) NAME
ascii - the ASCII character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal DESCRIPTION
ASCII is the American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It is a 7-bit code. Many 8-bit codes (such as ISO 8859-1, the Linux default character set) contain ASCII as their lower half. The international counterpart of ASCII is known as ISO 646. The following table contains the 128 ASCII characters. C program 'X' escapes are noted. Oct Dec Hex Char Oct Dec Hex Char ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 000 0 00 NUL '