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ascii.7: Remove mention of ISO 8859-1 as being the default encoding on Linux 

Reported-by: Duncan de Wet <duncandewet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@ -38,8 +38,7 @@ 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 (such as ISO 8859-1, the
Linux default character set) contain ASCII as their lower half.
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.
.LP
The following table contains the 128 ASCII characters.