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+.\" $OpenBSD: isascii.3,v 1.14 2021/06/12 16:53:28 jmc Exp $
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-.Dd $Mdocdate: July 17 2013 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: June 12 2021 $
.Dt ISASCII 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn isascii
-function tests for an
-.Tn ASCII
-character, which is any character with a value less than or
-equal to 0177.
+function tests for an ASCII character,
+which is any character with a value less than or equal to 0177.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
The
.Fn isascii
.Fn isascii
function first appeared in
.At v7 .
-.Sh CAVEATS
-The argument to
-.Fn isascii
-must be
-.Dv EOF
-or representable as an
-.Li unsigned char ;
-otherwise, the result is undefined.