Us-ascii

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  1. 1
    Synonym of ASCII, especially to differentiate it from 8-bit extended ASCII. formal, retronym

    "Here, we see that the source encoding has fallen back to US-ASCII because none was explicitly set."

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"Here, we see that the source encoding has fallen back to US-ASCII because none was explicitly set."

Etymology

From US (“United States”) + ASCII.

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