DictionarySeeAmerican Standard Code for Information Interchange
US-ASCII
US-ASCII
(character)The 7-bit version of ASCII, which preceded (andis the basis for) 8-bit versions such as Latin-1, MacASCIIand 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 Codefor Information Interchange".