diff --git a/man7/ascii.7 b/man7/ascii.7 index f17c25666..12375d949 100644 --- a/man7/ascii.7 +++ b/man7/ascii.7 @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@ '\" t .\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de) -.\" Created Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993 .\" .\" %%%LICENSE_START(GPLv2+_DOC_FULL) .\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or @@ -23,6 +22,7 @@ .\" . .\" %%%LICENSE_END .\" +.\" Created 1993-04-02 by Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de) .\" Modified 1993-07-24 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) .\" Modified 1994-05-15 by Daniel Quinlan (quinlan@yggdrasil.com) .\" Modified 1994-11-22 by Daniel Quinlan (quinlan@yggdrasil.com) @@ -34,12 +34,13 @@ .\" .TH ASCII 7 2014-02-26 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME -ascii \- ASCII character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal +ascii \- 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 (e.g., ISO 8859-1) contain ASCII as their lower half. -The international counterpart of ASCII is known as ISO 646. +The international counterpart of ASCII is known as ISO 646-IRV. .LP The following table contains the 128 ASCII characters. .LP @@ -51,7 +52,7 @@ C program \f(CW\(aq\eX\(aq\fP escapes are noted. l l l l l l l l. Oct Dec Hex Char Oct Dec Hex Char _ -000 0 00 NUL \(aq\e0\(aq 100 64 40 @ +000 0 00 NUL \(aq\e0\(aq (null character) 100 64 40 @ 001 1 01 SOH (start of heading) 101 65 41 A 002 2 02 STX (start of text) 102 66 42 B 003 3 03 ETX (end of text) 103 67 43 C @@ -121,7 +122,7 @@ _ .ft P \} .SS Tables -For convenience, let us give more compact tables in hex and decimal. +For convenience, below are more compact tables in hex and decimal. .sp .nf .if t \{\ @@ -182,9 +183,10 @@ Standards Institute (USASI) in 1968. .\" U.S. member body of ISO; private and nonprofit. .\" .SH SEE ALSO -.ad l +.BR charsets (7), .BR iso_8859-1 (7), .BR iso_8859-10 (7), +.BR iso_8859-11 (7), .BR iso_8859-13 (7), .BR iso_8859-14 (7), .BR iso_8859-15 (7),