Appendix A
Common Character Sets
Character | Unicode Value (Hex) | ANSI code (decimal) | Description |
NUL | 0000 | 0 | Null |
SOH | 0001 | 1 | Start of heading |
STX | 0002 | 2 | Start of text |
ETX | 0003 | 3 | End of text |
EOT | 0004 | 4 | End of transmission |
ENQ | 0005 | 5 | Enquiry |
ACK | 0006 | 6 | Acknowledge |
BEL | 0007 | 7 | Bell |
BS | 0008 | 8 | Backspace |
HT | 0009 | 9 | Horizontal tabulation |
LF | 000A | 10 | Line feed |
VT | 000B | 11 | Vertical tabulation |
FF | 000C | 12 | Form feed |
CR | 000D | 13 | Carriage return |
SO | 000E | 14 | Shift out |
SI | 000F | 15 | Shift in |
DLE | 0010 | 16 | Data link escape |
DC1 | 0011 | 17 | Device control 1 |
DC2 | 0012 | 18 | Device control 2 |
DC3 | 0013 | 19 | Device control 3 |
DC4 | 0014 | 20 | Device control 4 |
NAK | 0015 | 21 | Negative acknowledge |
SYN | 0016 | 22 | Synchronous idle |
ETB | 0017 | 23 | End of transmission block |
CAN | 0018 | 24 | Cancel |
EM | 0019 | 25 | End of medium |
SUB | 001A | 26 | Substitute |
ESC | 001B | 27 | Escape |
FS | 001C | 28 | File separator |
GS | 001D | 29 | Group separator |
RS | 001E | 30 | Record separator |
US | 001F | 31 | Unit separator |
SP | 0020 | 32 | Space |
! | 0021 | 33 | Exclamation point |
" | 0022 | 34 | Quotation mark |
# | 0023 | 35 | Number sign |
$ | 0024 | 36 | Dollar sign |
% | 0025 | 37 | Percent |
& | 0026 | 38 | Ampersand |
0027 | 39 | Apostrophe | |
( | 0028 | 40 | Left parenthesis |
) | 0029 | 41 | Right parenthesis |
* | 002A | 42 | Asterisk |
+ | 002B | 43 | Plus sign |
, | 002C | 44 | Comma |
- | 002D | 45 | Hyphen |
. | 002E | 46 | Full stop |
/ | 002F | 47 | Solidus |
0 | 0030 | 48 | Digit zero |
1 | 0031 | 49 | Digit one |
2 | 0032 | 50 | Digit two |
3 | 0033 | 51 | Digit three |
4 | 0034 | 52 | Digit four |
5 | 0035 | 53 | Digit five |
6 | 0036 | 54 | Digit six |
7 | 0037 | 55 | Digit seven |
8 | 0038 | 56 | Digit eight |
9 | 0039 | 57 | Digit nine |
: | 003A | 58 | Colon |
; | 003B | 59 | Semicolon |
< | 003C | 60 | Less-than sign |
= | 003D | 61 | Equals sign |
> | 003E | 62 | Greater-than sign |
? | 003F | 63 | Question mark |
@ | 0040 | 64 | Commercial at |
A | 0041 | 65 | Latin capital letter A |
B | 0042 | 66 | Latin capital letter B |
C | 0043 | 67 | Latin capital letter C |
D | 0044 | 68 | Latin capital letter D |
E | 0045 | 69 | Latin capital letter E |
F | 0046 | 70 | Latin capital letter F |
G | 0047 | 71 | Latin capital letter G |
H | 0048 | 72 | Latin capital letter H |
I | 0049 | 73 | Latin capital letter I |
J | 004A | 74 | Latin capital letter J |
K | 004B | 75 | Latin capital letter K |
L | 004C | 76 | Latin capital letter L |
M | 004D | 77 | Latin capital letter M |
N | 004E | 78 | Latin capital letter N |
O | 004F | 79 | Latin capital letter O |
P | 0050 | 80 | Latin capital letter P |
Q | 0051 | 81 | Latin capital letter Q |
R | 0052 | 82 | Latin capital letter R |
S | 0053 | 83 | Latin capital letter S |
T | 0054 | 84 | Latin capital letter T |
U | 0055 | 85 | Latin capital letter U |
V | 0056 | 86 | Latin capital letter V |
W | 0057 | 87 | Latin capital letter W |
X | 0058 | 88 | Latin capital letter X |
Y | 0059 | 89 | Latin capital letter Y |
Z | 005A | 90 | Latin capital letter Z |
[ | 005B | 91 | Left square bracket |
\ | 005C | 92 | Reverse solidus |
] | 005D | 93 | Right square bracket |
^ | 005E | 94 | Circumflex accent |
_ | 005F | 95 | Low line |
` | 0060 | 96 | Grave accent |
a | 0061 | 97 | Latin small letter a |
b | 0062 | 98 | Latin small letter b |
c | 0063 | 99 | Latin small letter c |
d | 0064 | 100 | Latin small letter d |
e | 0065 | 101 | Latin small letter e |
f | 0066 | 102 | Latin small letter f |
g | 0067 | 103 | Latin small letter g |
h | 0068 | 104 | Latin small letter h |
i | 0069 | 105 | Latin small letter i |
j | 006A | 106 | Latin small letter j |
k | 006B | 107 | Latin small letter k |
l | 006C | 108 | Latin small letter l |
m | 006D | 109 | Latin small letter m |
n | 006E | 110 | Latin small letter n |
o | 006F | 111 | Latin small letter o |
p | 0070 | 112 | Latin small letter p |
q | 0071 | 113 | Latin small letter q |
r | 0072 | 114 | Latin small letter r |
s | 0073 | 115 | Latin small letter s |
t | 0074 | 116 | Latin small letter t |
u | 0075 | 117 | Latin small letter u |
v | 0076 | 118 | Latin small letter v |
w | 0077 | 119 | Latin small letter w |
x | 0078 | 120 | Latin small letter x |
y | 0079 | 121 | Latin small letter y |
z | 007A | 122 | Latin small letter z |
{ | 007B | 123 | Left curly bracket |
007C | 124 | Vertical line | |
} | 007D | 125 | Right curly bracket |
~ | 007E | 126 | Tilde |
DEL | 007F | 127 | Delete |
0080 | 128 | Reserved | |
0081 | 129 | Reserved | |
0082 | 130 | Reserved | |
0083 | 131 | Reserved | |
IND | 0084 | 132 | Index |
NEL | 0085 | 133 | Next line |
SSA | 0086 | 134 | Start of selected area |
ESA | 0087 | 135 | End of selected area |
0088 | 136 | Character tabulation set | |
0089 | 137 | Character tabulation with justification | |
008A | 138 | Line tabulation set | |
PLD | 008B | 139 | Partial line down |
PLU | 008C | 140 | Partial line up |
008D | 141 | Reverse line feed | |
SS2 | 008E | 142 | Single shift two |
SS3 | 008F | 143 | Single shift three |
DCS | 0090 | 144 | Device control string |
PU1 | 0091 | 145 | Private use one |
PU2 | 0092 | 146 | Private use two |
STS | 0093 | 147 | Set transmit state |
CCH | 0094 | 148 | Cancel character |
MW | 0095 | 149 | Message waiting |
0096 | 150 | Start of guarded area | |
0097 | 151 | End of guarded area | |
0098 | 152 | Start of string | |
0099 | 153 | Reserved | |
009A | 154 | Single character introducer | |
CSI | 009B | 155 | Control sequence introducer |
ST | 009C | 156 | String terminator |
OSC | 009D | 157 | Operating system command |
PM | 009E | 158 | Privacy message |
APC | 009F | 158 | Application program command |
00A0 | 160 | No-break space | |
00A1 | 161 | Inverted exclamation mark | |
00A2 | 162 | Cent sign | |
00A3 | 163 | Pound sign | |
00A4 | 164 | Currency sign | |
00A5 | 165 | Yen sign | |
00A6 | 166 | Broken bar | |
00A7 | 167 | Section sign | |
00A8 | 168 | Diaeresis | |
00A9 | 169 | Copyright sign | |
00AA | 170 | Feminine ordinal indicator | |
00AB | 171 | Left-pointing double angle quotation mark | |
00AC | 172 | Not sign | |
00AD | 173 | Soft hyphen | |
00AE | 174 | Registered sign | |
00AF | 175 | Macron | |
00B0 | 176 | Degree sign | |
00B1 | 177 | Plus-minus sign | |
00B2 | 178 | Superscript two | |
00B3 | 179 | Superscript three | |
00B4 | 180 | Acute accent | |
00B5 | 181 | Micro sign | |
00B6 | 182 | Pilcrow sign | |
00B7 | 183 | Middle dot | |
00B8 | 184 | Cedilla | |
00B9 | 185 | Superscript one | |
00BA | 186 | Masculine ordinal indicator | |
00BB | 187 | Right-pointing double angle quotation mark | |
00BC | 188 | Vulgar fraction one quarter | |
00BD | 189 | Vulgar fraction one half | |
00BE | 190 | Vulgar fraction three quarters | |
00BF | 191 | Inverted question mark | |
00C0 | 192 | Latin capital letter A with grave | |
00C1 | 193 | Latin capital letter A with acute | |
00C2 | 194 | Latin capital letter A with circumflex | |
00C3 | 195 | Latin capital letter A with tilde | |
00C4 | 196 | Latin capital letter A with diaeresis | |
00C5 | 197 | Latin capital letter A with ring above | |
00C6 | 198 | Latin capital ligature AE | |
00C7 | 199 | Latin capital letter C with cedilla | |
00C8 | 200 | Latin capital letter E with grave | |
00C9 | 201 | Latin capital letter E with acute | |
00CA | 202 | Latin capital letter E with circumflex | |
00CB | 203 | Latin capital letter E with diaeresis | |
00CC | 204 | Latin capital letter I with grave | |
00CD | 205 | Latin capital letter I with acute | |
00CE | 206 | Latin capital letter I with circumflex | |
00CF | 207 | Latin capital letter I with diaeresis | |
00D0 | 208 | Latin capital letter ETH | |
00D1 | 209 | Latin capital letter N with tilde | |
00D2 | 210 | Latin capital letter O with grave | |
00D3 | 211 | Latin capital letter O with acute | |
00D4 | 212 | Latin capital letter O with circumflex | |
00D5 | 213 | Latin capital letter O with tilde | |
00D6 | 214 | Latin capital letter O with diaeresis | |
00D7 | 215 | Multiplication sign | |
00D8 | 216 | Latin capital letter O with stroke | |
00D9 | 217 | Latin capital letter U with grave | |
00DA | 218 | Latin capital letter U with acute | |
00DB | 219 | Latin capital letter U with circumflex | |
00DC | 220 | Latin capital letter U with diaeresis | |
00DD | 221 | Latin capital letter Y with acute | |
00DE | 222 | Latin capital letter thorn | |
00DF | 223 | Latin small letter sharp s | |
00E0 | 224 | Latin small letter a with grave | |
00E1 | 225 | Latin small letter a with acute | |
00E2 | 226 | Latin small letter a with circumflex | |
00E3 | 227 | Latin small letter a with tilde | |
00E4 | 228 | Latin small letter a with diaeresis | |
00E5 | 229 | Latin small letter a with ring above | |
00E6 | 230 | Latin small ligature ae | |
00E7 | 231 | Latin small letter c with cedilla | |
00E8 | 232 | Latin small letter e with grave | |
00E9 | 233 | Latin small letter e with acute | |
00EA | 234 | Latin small letter e with circumflex | |
00EB | 235 | Latin small letter e with diaeresis | |
00EC | 236 | Latin small letter i with grave | |
00ED | 237 | Latin small letter i with acute | |
00EE | 238 | Latin small letter i with circumflex | |
00EF | 239 | Latin small letter i with diaeresis | |
00F0 | 240 | Latin small letter eth | |
00F1 | 241 | Latin small letter n with tilde | |
00F2 | 242 | Latin small letter o with grave | |
00F3 | 243 | Latin small letter o with acute | |
00F4 | 244 | Latin small letter o with circumflex | |
00F5 | 245 | Latin small letter o with tilde | |
00F6 | 246 | Latin small letter o with diaeresis | |
00F7 | 247 | Division sign | |
00F8 | 248 | Latin small letter o with stroke | |
00F9 | 249 | Latin small letter u with grave | |
00FA | 250 | Latin small letter u with acute | |
00FB | 251 | Latin small letter u with circumflex | |
00FC | 252 | Latin small letter u with diaeresis | |
00FD | 253 | Latin small letter y with acute | |
00FE | 254 | Latin small letter thorn | |
00FF | 255 | Latin small letter y with diaeresis |
Apple Macintosh Extended Character Set
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IBM Extended Character Set
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Dec | Hex | Name | Character | Meaning |
0 | 00 | NUL | Null | |
1 | 01 | SOH | Start of heading | |
2 | 02 | STX | Start of text | |
3 | 03 | ETX | End of text | |
4 | 04 | SEL | Select | |
5 | 05 | HT | Horizontal tab | |
6 | 06 | RNL | Required new line | |
7 | 07 | DEL | Delete | |
8 | 08 | GE | Graphic escape | |
9 | 09 | SPS | Superscript | |
10 | 0A | RPT | Repeat | |
11 | 0B | VT | Vertical tab | |
12 | 0C | FF | Form feed | |
13 | 0D | CR | Carriage return | |
14 | 0E | SO | Shift out | |
15 | 0F | SI | Shift in | |
16 | 10 | DLE | Data length escape | |
17 | 11 | DC1 | Device control 1 | |
18 | 12 | DC2 | Device control 2 | |
19 | 13 | DC3 | Device control 3 | |
20 | 14 | RES/ENP | Restore/enable presentation | |
21 | 15 | NL | New line | |
22 | 16 | BS | Backspace | |
23 | 17 | POC | Program-operator communication | |
24 | 18 | CAN | Cancel | |
25 | 19 | EM | End of medium | |
26 | 1A | UBS | Unit backspace | |
27 | 1B | CU1 | Customer use 1 | |
28 | 1C | IFS | Interchange file separator | |
29 | 1D | IGS | Interchange group separator | |
30 | 1E | IRS | Interchange record separator | |
31 | 1F | IUS/ITB | Interchange unit separator/intermediate transmission block | |
32 | 20 | DS | Digit select | |
33 | 21 | SOS | Start of significance | |
34 | 22 | FS | Field separator | |
35 | 23 | WUS | Word underscore | |
36 | 24 | BYP/INP | Bypass/inhibit presentation | |
37 | 25 | LF | Line feed | |
38 | 26 | ETB | End of transmission block | |
39 | 27 | ESC | Escape | |
40 | 28 | SA | Set attribute | |
41 | 29 | SFE | Start field extended | |
42 | 2A | SM/SW | Set mode/switch | |
43 | 2B | CSP | Control sequence prefix | |
44 | 2C | MFA | Modify field attribute | |
45 | 2D | ENQ | Enquiry | |
46 | 2E | ACK | Acknowledge | |
47 | 2F | BEL | Bell | |
48 | 30 | (not assigned) | ||
49 | 31 | (not assigned) | ||
50 | 32 | SYN | Synchronous idle | |
51 | 33 | IR | Index return | |
52 | 34 | PP | Presentation position | |
53 | 35 | TRN | Transparent | |
54 | 36 | NBS | Numeric backspace | |
55 | 37 | EOT | End of transmission | |
56 | 38 | SBS | Subscript | |
57 | 39 | IT | Indent tab | |
58 | 3A | RFF | Required form feed | |
59 | 3B | CU3 | Customer use 3 | |
60 | 3C | DC4 | Device control 4 | |
61 | 3D | NAK | Negative acknowledge | |
62 | 3E | (not assigned) | ||
63 | 3F | SUB | Substitute | |
64 | 40 | SP | Space | |
65 | 41 | RSP | Required space | |
66 | 42 | (not assigned) | ||
67 | 43 | (not assigned) | ||
68 | 44 | (not assigned) | ||
69 | 45 | (not assigned) | ||
70 | 46 | (not assigned) | ||
71 | 47 | (not assigned) | ||
72 | 48 | (not assigned) | ||
73 | 49 | (not assigned) | ||
74 | 4A | |||
75 | 4B | . | ||
76 | 4C | < | ||
77 | 4D | ( | ||
78 | 4E | + | ||
79 | 4F | Logical OR | ||
80 | 50 | & | ||
81 | 51 | (not assigned) | ||
82 | 52 | (not assigned) | ||
83 | 53 | (not assigned) | ||
84 | 54 | (not assigned) | ||
85 | 55 | (not assigned) | ||
86 | 56 | (not assigned) | ||
87 | 57 | (not assigned) | ||
88 | 58 | (not assigned) | ||
89 | 59 | (not assigned) | ||
90 | 5A | ! | ||
91 | 5B | $ | ||
92 | 5C | * | ||
93 | 5D | ) | ||
94 | 5E | ; | ||
95 | 5F | Logical NOT | ||
96 | 60 | |||
97 | 61 | / | ||
98 | 62 | (not assigned) | ||
99 | 63 | (not assigned) | ||
100 | 64 | (not assigned) | ||
101 | 65 | (not assigned) | ||
102 | 66 | (not assigned) | ||
103 | 67 | (not assigned) | ||
104 | 68 | (not assigned) | ||
105 | 69 | (not assigned) | ||
106 | 6A | Broken pipe | ||
107 | 6B | , | ||
108 | 6C | % | ||
109 | 6D | _ | ||
110 | 6E | > | ||
111 | 6F | ? | ||
112 | 70 | (not assigned) | ||
113 | 71 | (not assigned) | ||
114 | 72 | (not assigned) | ||
115 | 73 | (not assigned) | ||
116 | 74 | (not assigned) | ||
117 | 75 | (not assigned) | ||
118 | 76 | (not assigned) | ||
119 | 77 | (not assigned) | ||
120 | 78 | (not assigned) | ||
121 | 79 | ` | Grave accent | |
122 | 7A | : | ||
123 | 7B | # | ||
124 | 7C | @ | ||
125 | 7D | " | ||
126 | 7E | = | ||
127 | 7F | " | ||
128 | 80 | (not assigned) | ||
129 | 81 | a | ||
130 | 82 | b | ||
131 | 83 | c | ||
132 | 84 | d | ||
133 | 85 | e | ||
134 | 86 | f | ||
135 | 87 | g | ||
136 | 88 | h | ||
137 | 89 | i | ||
138 | 8A | (not assigned) | ||
139 | 8B | (not assigned) | ||
140 | 8C | (not assigned) | ||
141 | 8D | (not assigned) | ||
142 | 8E | (not assigned) | ||
143 | 8F | (not assigned) | ||
144 | 90 | (not assigned) | ||
145 | 91 | j | ||
146 | 92 | k | ||
147 | 93 | l | ||
148 | 94 | m | ||
149 | 95 | n | ||
150 | 96 | o | ||
151 | 97 | p | ||
152 | 98 | q | ||
153 | 99 | r | ||
154 | 9A | (not assigned) | ||
155 | 9B | (not assigned) | ||
156 | 9C | (not assigned) | ||
157 | 9D | (not assigned) | ||
158 | 9E | (not assigned) | ||
159 | 9F | (not assigned) | ||
160 | A0 | (not assigned) | ||
161 | A1 | ~ | ||
162 | A2 | s | ||
163 | A3 | t | ||
164 | A4 | u | ||
165 | A5 | v | ||
166 | A6 | w | ||
167 | A7 | x | ||
168 | A8 | y | ||
169 | A9 | z | ||
170 | AA | (not assigned) | ||
171 | AB | (not assigned) | ||
172 | AC | (not assigned) | ||
173 | AD | (not assigned) | ||
174 | AE | (not assigned) | ||
175 | AF | (not assigned) | ||
176 | B0 | (not assigned) | ||
177 | B1 | (not assigned) | ||
178 | B2 | (not assigned) | ||
179 | B3 | (not assigned) | ||
180 | B4 | (not assigned) | ||
181 | B5 | (not assigned) | ||
182 | B6 | (not assigned) | ||
183 | B7 | (not assigned) | ||
184 | B8 | (not assigned) | ||
185 | B9 | (not assigned) | ||
186 | BA | (not assigned) | ||
187 | BB | (not assigned) | ||
188 | BC | (not assigned) | ||
189 | BD | (not assigned) | ||
190 | BE | (not assigned) | ||
191 | BF | (not assigned) | ||
192 | C0 | { | Opening brace | |
193 | C1 | A | ||
194 | C2 | B | ||
195 | C3 | C | ||
196 | C4 | D | ||
197 | C5 | E | ||
198 | C6 | F | ||
199 | C7 | G | ||
200 | C8 | H | ||
201 | C9 | I | ||
202 | CA | SHY | Syllable hyphen | |
203 | CB | (not assigned) | ||
204 | CC | (not assigned) | ||
205 | CD | (not assigned) | ||
206 | CE | (not assigned) | ||
207 | CF | (not assigned) | ||
208 | D0 | } | Closing brace | |
209 | D1 | J | ||
210 | D2 | K | ||
211 | D3 | L | ||
212 | D4 | M | ||
213 | D5 | N | ||
214 | D6 | O | ||
215 | D7 | P | ||
216 | D8 | Q | ||
217 | D9 | R | ||
218 | DA | (not assigned) | ||
219 | DB | (not assigned) | ||
220 | DC | (not assigned) | ||
221 | DD | (not assigned) | ||
222 | DE | (not assigned) | ||
223 | DF | (not assigned) | ||
224 | E0 | \ | Reverse slash | |
225 | E1 | NSP | Numeric space | |
226 | E2 | S | ||
227 | E3 | T | ||
228 | E4 | U | ||
229 | E5 | V | ||
230 | E6 | W | ||
231 | E7 | X | ||
232 | E8 | Y | ||
233 | E9 | Z | ||
234 | EA | (not assigned) | ||
235 | EB | (not assigned) | ||
236 | EC | (not assigned) | ||
237 | ED | (not assigned) | ||
238 | EE | (not assigned) | ||
239 | EF | (not assigned) | ||
240 | F0 | 0 | ||
241 | F1 | 1 | ||
242 | F2 | 2 | ||
243 | F3 | 3 | ||
244 | F4 | 4 | ||
245 | F5 | 5 | ||
246 | F6 | 6 | ||
247 | F7 | 7 | ||
248 | F8 | 8 | ||
249 | F9 | 9 | ||
250 | FA | (not assigned) | ||
251 | FB | (not assigned) | ||
252 | FC | (not assigned) | ||
253 | FD | (not assigned) | ||
254 | FE | (not assigned) | ||
255 | FF | EO | Eight ones |