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ASCII (/ ˈ æ s k iː / ⓘ ASS-kee), [3]: 6 an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. . ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devic
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The isolated character 127 (7F hex) also belongs to this group. Table rows 2 to 7, codes 32 to 126 (20 hex to 7E hex), are the standard ASCII printable characters. Table rows 8 to 10, codes 128 to 175 (80 hex to AF hex), are a selection of international text characters. Table rows 11 to 13, codes 176 to 223 (B0 hex to DF hex), are box drawing ...
In this table, The first cell in each row gives a symbol; The second is a link to the article that details that symbol, using its Unicode standard name or common alias. (Holding the mouse pointer on the hyperlink will pop up a summary of the symbol's function.);
The block contains all the letters and control codes of the ASCII encoding. It ranges from U+0000 to U+007F, contains 128 characters and includes the C0 controls, ASCII punctuation and symbols, ASCII digits, both the uppercase and lowercase of the English alphabet and a control character.
On many Unix systems and early dial-up bulletin board systems the only common standard for box-drawing characters was the VT100 alternate character set (see also: DEC Special Graphics). The escape sequence Esc ( 0 switched the codes for lower-case ASCII letters to draw this set, and the sequence Esc ( B switched back:
Description: A list of all the useful characters in the ASCII table. Goes up to 0x7F. Subject to change any time. Date: 2007: Source: Own work based on historical material and additional tables found at Wikipedia:Ascii.
Various proprietary modifications and extensions of ASCII appeared on non-EBCDIC mainframe computers and minicomputers, especially in universities.Hewlett-Packard started to add European characters to their extended 7-bit / 8-bit ASCII character set HP Roman Extension around 1978/1979 for use with their workstations, terminals and printers.