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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.