Appendix B. Latin 1 Character Repertoire and Keycodes

	ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition By Colin Moock
	Part III:  Appendixes

Appendix B. Latin 1 Character Repertoire and Keycodes

Table B-1 lists the characters in the Latin 1 character repertoire, with Unicode equivalents in the range of U+0000 to U+00FF (that is, C0 Controls, Basic Latin, C1 Controls, and Latin 1 Supplemental). The table's first column (labeled Dec), lists each character's code point in decimal (the standard ASCII or Latin 1 value), the second column provides the Unicode escape sequence for the character, and the third column describes or shows the character itself. See Chapter 4, for more information on character encoding in Flash. Table B-2 and Table B-3 list the keycodes used with the Key object. Although there is some overlap, keycodes represent physical keys on the keyboard and have no direct relation to the Latin 1 characters listed in Table B-1. That said, you'll notice that the keycodes for letters and numbers, listed in Table B-3, are identical to the Latin 1 code points (and ASCII values) for the letters A-Z and the numbers 0-9. See Key.getCode( ) and the Key object in the ActionScript Language Reference for more information on keycodes.

For supplementary reading on the topic of character encoding, see the following resources:

A tutorial on character code issues

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html

A highly informative series of articles on character representation in computers. By Jukka Korpela.

Unicode FAQ

http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq

A good question-and-answer format overview of Unicode, an international standard for character encoding.

To find the code point for a Unicode character not included in Latin 1, see:

Vendor Mappings

http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS

Lists vendor-specific code pages with corresponding Unicode character code points. If you know the code page used for text entry on your computer, this will help you find the characters you can type.

Where is my character?

http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/where

A helpful document that suggests ways to track down a character in the Unicode character set.

Unicode Code Charts

http://www.unicode.org/charts

A collection of .pdf files that describe and visually depict the characters in Unicode.

Unihan Database

http://www.unicode.org/charts/unihan.html

The section of the Unicode Character Database that includes the code points for many Asian characters, including those in the Shift-JIS character set, Flash 5's supported set of Japanese characters.

Table B-1. ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1) characters and Unicode mappings

Dec	Unicode	Description		Dec	Unicode	Description
0	\u0000	[null]		19	\u0013	[device control three]
1	\u0001	[start of heading]		20	\u0014	[device control four]
2	\u0002	[start of text]		21	\u0015	[negative acknowledge]
3	\u0003	[end of text]		22	\u0016	[synchronous idle]
4	\u0004	[end of transmission]		23	\u0017	[end of transmission block]
5	\u0005	[enquiry]		24	\u0018	[cancel]
6	\u0006	[acknowledge]		25	\u0019	[end of medium]
7	\u0007	[bell]		26	\u001a	[substitute]
8	\u0008	[backspace]		27	\u001b	[escape]
9	\u0009	[horizontal tabulation]		28	\u001c	[file separator]
10	\u000a	[line feed]		29	\u001d	[group separator]
11	\u000b	[vertical tabulation]		30	\u001e	[record separator]
12	\u000c	[form feed]		31	\u001f	[unit separator]
13	\u000d	[carriage feed]		32	\u0020	[space]
14	\u000e	[shift out]		33	\u0021	!
15	\u000f	[shift in]		34	\u0022	" (straight quotes)
16	\u0010	[data link escape]		35	\u0023	#
17	\u0011	[device control one]		36	\u0024	$
18	\u0012	[device control two]		37	\u0025	%
38	\u0026	&		74	\u004a	J
39	\u0027	' (straight apostrophe)		75	\u004b	K
40	\u0028	(		76	\u004c	L
41	\u0029	)		77	\u004d	M
42	\u002a	*		78	\u004e	N
43	\u002b	+		79	\u004f	O
44	\u002c	, (comma)		80	\u0050	P
45	\u002d	- (minus)		81	\u0051	Q
46	\u002e	. (period)		82	\u0052	R
47	\u002f	/		83	\u0053	S
48	\u0030	0		84	\u0054	T
49	\u0031	1		85	\u0055	U
50	\u0032	2		86	\u0056	V
51	\u0033	3		87	\u0057	W
52	\u0034	4		88	\u0058	X
53	\u0035	5		89	\u0059	Y
54	\u0036	6		90	\u005a	Z
55	\u0037	7		91	\u005b	[
56	\u0038	8		92	\u005c	\
57	\u0039	9		93	\u005d	]
58	\u003a	:		94	\u005e	^
59	\u003b	;		95	\u005f	_ (underscore)
60	\u003c	<		96	\u0060	` (accent grave)
61	\u003d	=		97	\u0061	a
62	\u003e	>		98	\u0062	b
63	\u003f	?		99	\u0063	c
64	\u0040	@		100	\u0064	d
65	\u0041	A		101	\u0065	e
66	\u0042	B		102	\u0066	f
67	\u0043	C		103	\u0067	g
68	\u0044	D		104	\u0068	h
69	\u0045	E		105	\u0069	i
70	\u0046	F		106	\u006a	j
71	\u0047	G		107	\u006b	k
72	\u0048	H		108	\u006c	l
73	\u0049	I		109	\u006d	m
110	\u006e	n		146	\u0092	control chr
111	\u006f	o		147	\u0093	control chr
112	\u0070	p		148	\u0094	control chr
113	\u0071	q		149	\u0095	control chr
114	\u0072	r		150	\u0096	control chr
115	\u0073	s		151	\u0097	control chr
116	\u0074	t		152	\u0098	control chr
117	\u0075	u		153	\u0099	control chr
118	\u0076	v		154	\u009a	control chr
119	\u0077	w		155	\u009b	control chr
120	\u0078	x		156	\u009c	control chr
121	\u0079	y		157	\u009d	control chr
122	\u007a	z		158	\u009e	control chr
123	\u007b	{		159	\u009f	control chr
124	\u007c	|		160	\u00a0	[no break space]
125	\u007d	}		161	\u00a1	?
126	\u007e	~		162	\u00a2	?
127	\u007f	[delete]		163	\u00a3	?
128	\u0080	control chr		164	\u00a4
129	\u0081	control chr		165	\u00a5	?
130	\u0082	control chr		166	\u00a6
131	\u0083	control chr		167	\u00a7
132	\u0084	control chr		168	\u00a8	?
133	\u0085	control chr		169	\u00a9
134	\u0086	control chr		170	\u00aa	?
135	\u0087	control chr		171	\u00ab
136	\u0088	control chr		172	\u00ac
137	\u0089	control chr		173	\u00ad	-
138	\u008a	control chr		174	\u00ae
139	\u008b	control chr		175	\u00af	?
140	\u008c	control chr		176	\u00b0
141	\u008d	control chr		177	\u00b1
142	\u008e	control chr		178	\u00b2	2
143	\u008f	control chr		179	\u00b3	3
144	\u0090	control chr		180	\u00b4	?
145	\u0091	control chr		181	\u00b5	m
182	\u00b6			219	\u00db	u
183	\u00b7			220	\u00dc	U
184	\u00b8	?		221	\u00dd	Y
185	\u00b9	1		222	\u00de
186	\u00ba	?		223	\u00df	?
187	\u00bb			224	\u00e0	a
188	\u00bc	1/4		225	\u00e1	a
189	\u00bd	1/2		226	\u00e2	a
190	\u00be	3/4		227	\u00e3	a
191	\u00bf	?		228	\u00e4	a
192	\u00c0	A		229	\u00e5	a
193	\u00c1	A		230	\u00e6	?
194	\u00c2	?		231	\u00e7	c
195	\u00c3	A		232	\u00e8	e
196	\u00c4	A		233	\u00e9	e
197	\u00c5	A		234	\u00ea	e
198	\u00c6	?		235	\u00eb	e
199	\u00c7	C		236	\u00ec	i
200	\u00c8	E		237	\u00ed	i
201	\u00c9	E		238	\u00ee	i
202	\u00ca	E		239	\u00ef	i
203	\u00cb	E		240	\u00f0
204	\u00cc	I		241	\u00f1	n
205	\u00cd	I		242	\u00f2	o
206	\u00ce	I		243	\u00f3	o
207	\u00cf	I		244	\u00f4	o
208	\u00d0			245	\u00f5	o
209	\u00d1	N		246	\u00f6	o
210	\u00d2	O		247	\u00f7	?
211	\u00d3	O		248	\u00f8
212	\u00d4	O		249	\u00f9	u
213	\u00d5	O		250	\u00fa	u
214	\u00d6	O		251	\u00fb	U
215	\u00d7	x		252	\u00fc	u
216	\u00d8	O		253	\u00fd
217	\u00d9	U		254	\u00fe
218	\u00da	U		255	\u00ff	y

Table B-2 lists the keycodes for selected special keys on the keyboard. These keycodes are used only with the Key object. See Table 18-8 (under the Key object in the ActionScript Language Reference) for an alphabetical listing of the special properties.

Table B-2. Key object special keycodes

Key	Keycode	Property		Key	Keycode
Backspace	8	Key.BACKSPACE		Num Pad 9	105
Tab	9	Key.TAB		Num Pad *	106
Enter	13	Key.ENTER		Num Pad +	107
Shift	16	Key.SHIFT		Num Pad Enter	13 (not trappable as 108)
Control	17	Key.CONTROL		Num Pad -	109
Alt	18 (not trappable)			Num Pad .	110
Pause/Break	19			Num Pad /	111
Caps Lock	20	Key.CAPSLOCK		F1	112
Escape	27	Key.ESCAPE		F2	113
Space	32	Key.SPACE		F3	114
Page Up	33	Key.PGUP		F4	115
Page Down	34	Key.PGDN		F5	116
End	35	Key.END		F6	117
Home	36	Key.HOME		F7	118
Left arrow	37	Key.LEFT		F8	119
Up Arrow	38	Key.UP		F9	120
Right Arrow	39	Key.RIGHT		F10	121 (not trappable)
Down arrow	40	Key.DOWN		F11	122
Print Screen	44			F12	123
Insert	45	Key.INSERT		Num Lock	144
Delete	46	Key.DELETEKEY		Scroll Lock	145
Num Pad 0	96			; :	186
Num Pad 1	97			+ =	187
Num Pad 2	98			- _	189
Num Pad 3	99			/ ?	191
Num Pad 4	100			` ~	192
Num Pad 5	101			[ {	219
Num Pad 6	102			\ |	220
Num Pad 7	103			] }	221
Num Pad 8	104			" '	222

Table B-3 lists the keycodes for the letter and number keys on a keyboard. These keycodes are used only with the Key object (see Key.getCode( ) and Key.isDown( ) in the ActionScript Language Reference).

Table B-3. Key object letter and number keycodes

Key	Keycode		Key	Keycode		Key	Keycode
A	65		M	77		Y	89
B	66		N	78		Z	90
C	67		O	79		0	48
D	68		P	80		1	49
E	69		Q	81		2	50
F	70		R	82		3	51
G	71		S	83		4	52
H	72		T	84		5	53
I	73		U	85		6	54
J	74		V	86		7	55
K	75		W	87		8	56
L	76		X	88		9	57