I just ran into this problem on Ubuntu 14.04. I needed to write ASCII symbol \x27 in a file. Not remembering exactly which symbol that is, I used the ascii man page and copied the symbol listed as hexadecimal 27 to the target file. It turns out that does not work because the symbol shown in the ascii man page as number 27 is not an ascii symbol at all.
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