us-ascii

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us-ascii - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  US-ASCII
  
     <character> The 7-bit version of ASCII, which preceded (and
     is the basis for) 8-bit versions such as Latin-1, MacASCII
     and later, even larger coded character sets such as Unicode.
  
     US-ASCII is defined in Standard ANSI X3.4-1986,
     "US-ASCII. Coded Character Set - 7-Bit American Standard Code
     for Information Interchange".
  
     (1998-10-18)