US-ASCII

English

Etymology

US (“United States”) +‎ ASCII

Proper noun

US-ASCII

  1. (computing, formal, retronym) Synonym of ASCII, especially to differentiate it from 8-bit extended ASCII.
    • 2009, Gregory T. Brown, Ruby Best Practices, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 189:
      Here, we see that the source encoding has fallen back to US-ASCII because none was explicitly set.
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