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[Acronym] for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard mapping between characters and bit patterns (7 bits, to be exact.)
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.
See ascii(7).
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