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ascii - 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 (e.g., ISO 8859-1) contain ASCII as their lower half. The international counterpart of ASCII is known as ISO 646-IRV.

The following table contains the 128 ASCII characters.

C program CWaq\Xaq escapes are noted.

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