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diff --git a/man7/ascii.7 b/man7/ascii.7 index 1a13b92611..7b301b90d4 100644 --- a/man7/ascii.7 +++ b/man7/ascii.7 @@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ 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. -.LP +.PP The following table contains the 128 ASCII characters. -.LP +.PP C program \f(CW\(aq\eX\(aq\fP escapes are noted. .if t \{\ .ft CW @@ -157,17 +157,17 @@ F: / ? O _ o DEL An .B ascii manual page appeared in Version 7 of AT&T UNIX. -.LP +.PP On older terminals, the underscore code is displayed as a left arrow, called backarrow, the caret is displayed as an up-arrow and the vertical bar has a hole in the middle. -.LP +.PP Uppercase and lowercase characters differ by just one bit and the ASCII character 2 differs from the double quote by just one bit, too. That made it much easier to encode characters mechanically or with a non-microcontroller-based electronic keyboard and that pairing was found on old teletypes. -.LP +.PP The ASCII standard was published by the United States of America Standards Institute (USASI) in 1968. .\" |