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diff --git a/man7/ascii.7 b/man7/ascii.7 index c898a8c585..f0747d51cf 100644 --- a/man7/ascii.7 +++ b/man7/ascii.7 @@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ ascii \- the ASCII character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal .SH 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 +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. .LP |