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ASCII is a 7 bit character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal; it is an acronym of 'American Standard Code for Information Interchange'. There are 128 ASCII characters in the entire set, which was published in 1968 by the United States of America Standards Institute (USASI).

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Alt + ASCII code like in Windows [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Ways to enter special characters? Is Alt+Numpad possible? Is there a way to do Alt+ASCII code for typing ASCII code in Ubuntu like one can do in Windows? If so, then how to do ...
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How can I type ASCII characters like Alt + numpad in Windows? [duplicate]

On Windows, the key combination Alt + 2+ 5+ 5 creates a blank space. How can I achieve this on Ubuntu?
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Text inside files has squares with numbers in it

Some text files I come across, have little squares with numbers in them (in place of certain characters). I am unable to copy and paste these in Ubuntu, but may search and replace in gedit each ...
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What are some good ASCII art generators?

I have tried figlet but it's not much good. Are there any other ASCII editors?
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gedit can't recognize character encoding, but gvim can

I have a lot of plain text files which come from a Windows environment. Many of them use a whacky default Windows code-page, which is neither ASCII (7 bits) nor UTF-8. gvim has no problem opening ...
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