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<div class="header">Open Salamander: Appendix: File and Directory Concepts</div>
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<h1>Text Files Coding and End of Line Characters</h1>

<h5>Character Sets</h5>
<p>Text files use character sets. A character set contains punctuation marks,
numerals, uppercase and lowercase letters, and all other printable characters.
Each element of a character set is identified by a number.</p>

<p>Most character sets in use are supersets of the U.S. ASCII character set,
which defines characters for th