US-ASCII

character The 7-bit version of ASCII, which preceded (and

is the basis for) 8-bit versions such as Latin-1, MacASCII

and later, even larger coded character sets such as Unicode.

US-ASCII is defined in Standard ANSI X3.4-1986,

"US-ASCII. Coded Character Set - 7-Bit American Standard Code

for Information Interchange".

(1998-10-18)