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.\" Modified 1999-08-08 by Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de)
.\" Modified 2004-04-01 by aeb
.\"
-.TH ascii 7 2023-05-02 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH ascii 7 2024-01-28 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
.SH NAME
ascii \- ASCII character set encoded in octal, decimal,
and hexadecimal
.SH DESCRIPTION
ASCII is the American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
It is a 7-bit code.
-Many 8-bit codes (e.g., ISO 8859-1) contain ASCII as their lower half.
-The international counterpart of ASCII is known as ISO 646-IRV.
-.PP
+Many 8-bit codes (e.g., ISO/IEC\~8859-1) contain ASCII as their lower half.
+The international counterpart of ASCII is known as ISO/IEC\~646-IRV.
+.P
The following table contains the 128 ASCII characters.
-.PP
+.P
C program \f(CW\[aq]\eX\[aq]\fP escapes are noted.
-.PP
+.P
.EX
.TS
l l l l | l l l l.
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ _
.EE
.SS Tables
For convenience, below are more compact tables in hex and decimal.
-.PP
+.P
.EX
2 3 4 5 6 7 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120
------------- ---------------------------------
@@ -124,17 +124,17 @@ F: / ? O _ o DEL
.SH NOTES
.SS History
/etc/ascii (VII) appears in the UNIX Programmer's Manual.
-.PP
+.P
On older terminals, the underscore code is displayed as a left arrow,
called backarrow, the caret is displayed as an up-arrow and the vertical
bar has a hole in the middle.
-.PP
+.P
Uppercase and lowercase characters differ by just one bit and the
ASCII character 2 differs from the double quote by just one bit, too.
That made it much easier to encode characters mechanically or with a
non-microcontroller-based electronic keyboard and that pairing was found
on old teletypes.
-.PP
+.P
The ASCII standard was published by the United States of America
Standards Institute (USASI) in 1968.
.\"