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ascii - the ASCII character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal

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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 CW'\X' escapes are noted.


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