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I've probably consulted the ASCII(7) man page more frequently than any other, and consistently for almost two decades now.

I'm embarrassed to admit that TIL there is a man page for ASCII. I wish I had known this years ago.

And on OS X at least, it gives you a path to a file. If I "cat /usr/share/misc/ascii" on Mountain Lion, I get an ASCII table (in ASCII, of course).

I got tired of looking at it in my terminal, so I made this: http://man-ascii.com/

(I had forgotten until now that the Linux and BSD versions of this man page are so differently laid out! I was running Linux at the time.)