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ASCII stands for "American Standard Code for Information Interchange". It is a standard for mapping characters to codes. It is mainly a 7-bit wide encoding . Extended ASCII is its popular variant with 8-bit width.

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What command prints a string as "big ascii text art" in bash?

I'm looking for a program that turns an ASCII string into something like the "ascii art" below: .-"^`\ /`^"-. .' ___\ /___ `. / /.---. …
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ASCII vs Binary vs Auto?

I'm transferring files between servers and just started noticing that some of them are getting modified to be one long continuous line as opposed to having the returns and line-breaks they originally had. I'm assuming this has something to do with…
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What does CRLF mean?

What is the meaning of CR + LF?
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How to generate an ASCII representation of a Unix file hierarchy?

all. I'm looking for a quick and dirty way to generate some diagrams of some directories that have almost, but not exactly, the same hierarchy, so I can show them around at a meeting and we can decide which flavor we like best. I'm not interested in…
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Powershell 2: How to strip a specific character from a body of ASCII text

I am trying to strip odd characters from strings using PowerShell. I used the following output to attempt to learn on my own: get-help about_regular_expressions I am trying to take a string that is mostly ASCII, but that has one anomalous character…
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ftp.exe does not convert end of line characters while transferring to FreeBSD ftp server

I am having problems transferring a text file from Windows 7 using ftp.exe to a FreeBSD server. After the file transfer the end-of-line characters are not changed from \r\n to \n, Instead they remain with the carriage return character which can be…
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Trying to run a netsh batch with foreign characters

I am trying to run a batch file with the following content: netsh interface ip>set dns "Połączenie lokalne" source=dhcp The file is saved as ANSI. My Windows codepage is 1250, the OEM one 852. Thus, since Windows uses ANSI (ACP) while the console…
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Euro character messed up during FTP transfer

My customer is using a very outdated ecommerce management system on my hosting service. For that product, no support is being provided anymore by the vendor. Brief explanation: the shop website, that claims to run under LAMP stack, is built by an…
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FTP - Is transferring ascii files in binary a bad thing?

We have a local development server that we develop websites on. To push a website live it is FTPed (SSH/SFTP/Rsync is not an option unfortunately) to our webhost. I want to run some scripts that compare/diff sites on the development server vs. the…
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LDAP at IBM XIV

I have problem with authenticating users over LDAP (Active Directory) Windows 2008 R2 on IBM XIV. After troubleshooting I've find out problems caused by polish letters in CommonName (distinguishedName contain CN) Users without polish letters in…
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How do I export both Packet bytes and Summary line using tshark?

I can export ascii using Wireshark with exactly the same settings as in the example from the documenation, i.e. Only Summary line and Packet bytes exported. Since I have many files to do this with I suppose using tshark is way to go, but I do not…
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XenServer 6.0.2 path to installation media contains non-ascii characters

XenServer 6.0.2 install fails no matter what I do. I have confirmed that the md5 checksum on my ISO file is good. I tried installing from a mounted ISO file (remotely via iKVM). I tried installing from physical media. I tried installing from a…
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Incomplete response received from application when non-ascii character in html

I have an Ubuntu 18.04 server with Nginx and Phusion Passenger (non-Rails app) and it is working for websites with ASCII characters in HTML only. But when I put a non-ascii character to the index.erb like á, I get error: Incomplete response received…
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Microsoft FTP 7.5 server not translating line feeds

I have a file created in Linux that I'm sending out of a MS FTP 7.5 server. The receiving system (client) is a mainframe. The file has LF line endings. The FTP server is not reading those and translating them, so it's not getting transmitted…
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LINUX: Can a file which is shown as ASCII text contain UTF-8 data

Version of LINUX Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 I need to confirm if an extract from a database has correctly output data with UTF-8 encoding. I created the file using the mechanism specified by the database vendor, but when I did $ file…
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