Usascii

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  US-ASCII
       
           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)