From f854adde578cc57dae48d288cecab611bf2df071 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 11:01:55 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ascii.7: Remove mention of ISO 8859-1 as being the default encoding on Linux Reported-by: Duncan de Wet Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man7/ascii.7 | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man7/ascii.7 b/man7/ascii.7 index 5f064c134..88979dce9 100644 --- a/man7/ascii.7 +++ b/man7/ascii.7 @@ -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.