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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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How can I type ASCII characters like Alt + numpad in Windows?

On Windows, the key combination Alt + 2+ 5+ 5 creates a blank space. How can I achieve this on Ubuntu?
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ASCII screensaver for the command-line or a TUI?

This question was closed due to being too broad, so I'll be more specific with regard to ASCII animations here =) Are there any ASCII animations that can be used as screensavers - either in the TUI or in the command-line?
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ASCII animations that are viewed in the command-line?

I like ASCII animations and want to view them through a terminal window. What famous Linux programs and commands are suitable here to display ASCII animations or view videos in a terminal screen?
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How to see list of ASCII code on the terminal

Once on a web site, I saw one command which shows the list of all ASCII codes on the terminal. But now I forgot that website and also that command. I need the list of them. Is there a command which shows the list of ASCII codes on the terminal?
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What type of sequences are escape sequences starting with "\033]"

I found many escape sequences in Bash starting with \033], but what are these sequences and why are they starting with \033]?
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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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How to name a file to be the very first in Nautilus?

New versions of Nautilus are cool, because they skip nonalphanumeric letters at the beginning of any file name and sort files according to the first alphanumeric letter (if any). But how to name a file in order to sort it before 0? Assume I have a…
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How can I have my terminal start with an ASCII banner?

How can I have my terminal in Ubuntu start with an ASCII banner every time from default?
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How to Triforce on /b/ on ubuntu

How can you type three triangles in the shape of a triangle? So a ascii art of the Triforce from Zelda using the triangle symbol. /b/ is a image board on 4chan. Text on this image board is edited by an automatic system which removes all preleading…
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Windows Subsystem for Linux display Linux distribution?

There is the package screenfetch to display your Ubuntu distribution from the CLI with an ASCII splash screen: There is also a package called WinScreeny that will display a Windows logo when running Linux in a Windows environment but doesn't…
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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 character individually (replacing for what I think is…
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Can gedit create a Unicode file?

Using bless I can see my gedit output is ASCII. Can gedit process some kind of Unicode?
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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 these files, but gedit fails to do so. gvim reports…
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Cannot run sudo update-manager

I cannot run sudo update-manager. I dont know whats wrong. Do you know? (precise)acer@localhost:~$ sudo update-manager [sudo] password for acer: (process:5761): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C'…
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Alt + ASCII code like in Windows

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 it? I understand there is a way to do…
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