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-.TH ASCII 7 2014-02-26 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH ASCII 7 2014-10-02 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
-ascii \- ASCII character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal
+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.
+The international counterpart of ASCII is known as ISO 646-IRV.
.LP
The following table contains the 128 ASCII characters.
.LP
l l l l l l l l.
Oct Dec Hex Char Oct Dec Hex Char
_
-000 0 00 NUL \(aq\e0\(aq 100 64 40 @
+000 0 00 NUL \(aq\e0\(aq (null character) 100 64 40 @
001 1 01 SOH (start of heading) 101 65 41 A
002 2 02 STX (start of text) 102 66 42 B
003 3 03 ETX (end of text) 103 67 43 C
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.SS Tables
-For convenience, let us give more compact tables in hex and decimal.
+For convenience, below are more compact tables in hex and decimal.
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.SH SEE ALSO
-.ad l
+.BR charsets (7),
.BR iso_8859-1 (7),
.BR iso_8859-10 (7),
+.BR iso_8859-11 (7),
.BR iso_8859-13 (7),
.BR iso_8859-14 (7),
.BR iso_8859-15 (7),
.BR iso_8859-9 (7),
.BR utf-8 (7)
.SH COLOPHON
-This page is part of release 3.68 of the Linux
+This page is part of release 3.75 of the Linux
.I man-pages
project.
A description of the project,