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.