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Because that is the definition

ASCII represents Latin characters of the English alphabet (there are no English characters) the character set is called "Latin"

The 95 ASCII graphic characters are numbered from 0x20 to 0x7E (32 to 126 decimal). The space character is considered a non-printing graphic

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