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.