ascii(7) - Linux man page

Name

ascii - 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 CWaq\Xaq escapes are noted.

Referenced By

armscii-8(7), awffull(1), awffull.conf(5), bvi(1), charsets(7), cp1251(7), groff(1), iso-8859-5(7), iso_8859-15(7), iso_8859-16(7), iso_8859-2(7), iso_8859_1(7), iso_8859_6(7), iso_8859_7(7), iso_8859_8(7), isprint(3), koi8-r(7), koi8-u(7), latin3(7), latin4(7), latin5(7), latin6(7), latin7(7), latin8(7), tis-620(7), webazolver(1)