.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de)
.\" Created Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993
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.\" Modified 1993-07-24 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
.\" Modified 1994-05-15 by Daniel Quinlan (quinlan@yggdrasil.com)
.\" Modified 1999-08-08 by Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de)
.\" Modified 2004-04-01 by aeb
.\"
-.TH ASCII 7 2009-02-12 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH ASCII 7 2014-02-26 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.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 (such as ISO 8859-1, the
-Linux default character set) contain ASCII as their lower half.
+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.
.LP
The following table contains the 128 ASCII characters.
.LP
C program \f(CW\(aq\eX\(aq\fP escapes are noted.
.if t \{\
-.in 1i
.ft CW
\}
.TS
044 36 24 $ 144 100 64 d
045 37 25 % 145 101 65 e
046 38 26 & 146 102 66 f
-047 39 27 \' 147 103 67 g
+047 39 27 \(aq 147 103 67 g
050 40 28 ( 150 104 68 h
051 41 29 ) 151 105 69 i
052 42 2A * 152 106 6A j
.\" American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in 1969 and is the
.\" U.S. member body of ISO; private and nonprofit.
.\"
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.ad l
.BR iso_8859-1 (7),
.BR iso_8859-10 (7),
.BR iso_8859-13 (7),
.BR iso_8859-6 (7),
.BR iso_8859-7 (7),
.BR iso_8859-8 (7),
-.BR iso_8859-9 (7)
+.BR iso_8859-9 (7),
+.BR utf-8 (7)
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.65 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+and information about reporting bugs,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.