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Expressions régulières,
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ISBN : 978-2-7460-9712-4
EAN : 9782746097124
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GNU/Linux

RedHat 5.2

(Apollo)

ascii(7)


ASCII

ASCII

NAME
DESCRIPTION
HISTORY
SEE ALSO

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.

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HISTORY

An ascii manual page appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.

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.

The ASCII standard was published by the United States of America Standards Institute (USASI) in 1968.

SEE ALSO

iso_8859_1(7)



ascii(7)