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2 | .\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de) | |
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25 | .\" Modified 1993-07-24 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) | |
26 | .\" Modified 1994-05-15 by Daniel Quinlan (quinlan@yggdrasil.com) | |
27 | .\" Modified 1994-11-22 by Daniel Quinlan (quinlan@yggdrasil.com) | |
28 | .\" Modified 1995-07-11 by Daniel Quinlan (quinlan@yggdrasil.com) | |
29 | .\" Modified 1996-12-18 by Michael Haardt and aeb | |
30 | .\" Modified 1999-05-31 by Dimitri Papadopoulos (dpo@club-internet.fr) | |
31 | .\" Modified 1999-08-08 by Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de) | |
32 | .\" Modified 2004-04-01 by aeb | |
33 | .\" | |
e69aa6c8 | 34 | .TH ASCII 7 2009-02-12 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" |
fea681da | 35 | .SH NAME |
84092221 | 36 | ascii \- ASCII character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal |
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37 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
38 | ASCII is the American Standard Code for Information Interchange. | |
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39 | It is a 7-bit code. |
40 | Many 8-bit codes (such as ISO 8859-1, the | |
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41 | Linux default character set) contain ASCII as their lower half. |
42 | The international counterpart of ASCII is known as ISO 646. | |
43 | .LP | |
44 | The following table contains the 128 ASCII characters. | |
45 | .LP | |
9f8e673e | 46 | C program \f(CW\(aq\\X\(aq\fP escapes are noted. |
fea681da | 47 | .if t \{\ |
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48 | .ft CW |
49 | \} | |
50 | .TS | |
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51 | l l l l l l l l. |
52 | Oct Dec Hex Char Oct Dec Hex Char | |
fea681da | 53 | _ |
9f8e673e | 54 | 000 0 00 NUL \(aq\\0\(aq 100 64 40 @ |
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55 | 001 1 01 SOH (start of heading) 101 65 41 A |
56 | 002 2 02 STX (start of text) 102 66 42 B | |
57 | 003 3 03 ETX (end of text) 103 67 43 C | |
58 | 004 4 04 EOT (end of transmission) 104 68 44 D | |
59 | 005 5 05 ENQ (enquiry) 105 69 45 E | |
60 | 006 6 06 ACK (acknowledge) 106 70 46 F | |
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61 | 007 7 07 BEL \(aq\\a\(aq (bell) 107 71 47 G |
62 | 010 8 08 BS \(aq\\b\(aq (backspace) 110 72 48 H | |
63 | 011 9 09 HT \(aq\\t\(aq (horizontal tab) 111 73 49 I | |
64 | 012 10 0A LF \(aq\\n\(aq (new line) 112 74 4A J | |
65 | 013 11 0B VT \(aq\\v\(aq (vertical tab) 113 75 4B K | |
66 | 014 12 0C FF \(aq\\f\(aq (form feed) 114 76 4C L | |
67 | 015 13 0D CR \(aq\\r\(aq (carriage ret) 115 77 4D M | |
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68 | 016 14 0E SO (shift out) 116 78 4E N |
69 | 017 15 0F SI (shift in) 117 79 4F O | |
70 | 020 16 10 DLE (data link escape) 120 80 50 P | |
71 | 021 17 11 DC1 (device control 1) 121 81 51 Q | |
72 | 022 18 12 DC2 (device control 2) 122 82 52 R | |
73 | 023 19 13 DC3 (device control 3) 123 83 53 S | |
74 | 024 20 14 DC4 (device control 4) 124 84 54 T | |
75 | 025 21 15 NAK (negative ack.) 125 85 55 U | |
76 | 026 22 16 SYN (synchronous idle) 126 86 56 V | |
77 | 027 23 17 ETB (end of trans. blk) 127 87 57 W | |
78 | 030 24 18 CAN (cancel) 130 88 58 X | |
79 | 031 25 19 EM (end of medium) 131 89 59 Y | |
80 | 032 26 1A SUB (substitute) 132 90 5A Z | |
81 | 033 27 1B ESC (escape) 133 91 5B [ | |
9f8e673e | 82 | 034 28 1C FS (file separator) 134 92 5C \\ \(aq\\\\\(aq |
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83 | 035 29 1D GS (group separator) 135 93 5D ] |
84 | 036 30 1E RS (record separator) 136 94 5E ^ | |
85 | 037 31 1F US (unit separator) 137 95 5F \&_ | |
86 | 040 32 20 SPACE 140 96 60 \` | |
87 | 041 33 21 ! 141 97 61 a | |
88 | 042 34 22 " 142 98 62 b | |
89 | 043 35 23 # 143 99 63 c | |
90 | 044 36 24 $ 144 100 64 d | |
91 | 045 37 25 % 145 101 65 e | |
92 | 046 38 26 & 146 102 66 f | |
82f2286b | 93 | 047 39 27 \' 147 103 67 g |
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94 | 050 40 28 ( 150 104 68 h |
95 | 051 41 29 ) 151 105 69 i | |
96 | 052 42 2A * 152 106 6A j | |
97 | 053 43 2B + 153 107 6B k | |
98 | 054 44 2C , 154 108 6C l | |
99 | 055 45 2D \- 155 109 6D m | |
100 | 056 46 2E . 156 110 6E n | |
101 | 057 47 2F / 157 111 6F o | |
102 | 060 48 30 0 160 112 70 p | |
103 | 061 49 31 1 161 113 71 q | |
104 | 062 50 32 2 162 114 72 r | |
105 | 063 51 33 3 163 115 73 s | |
106 | 064 52 34 4 164 116 74 t | |
107 | 065 53 35 5 165 117 75 u | |
108 | 066 54 36 6 166 118 76 v | |
109 | 067 55 37 7 167 119 77 w | |
110 | 070 56 38 8 170 120 78 x | |
111 | 071 57 39 9 171 121 79 y | |
112 | 072 58 3A : 172 122 7A z | |
113 | 073 59 3B ; 173 123 7B { | |
114 | 074 60 3C < 174 124 7C | | |
115 | 075 61 3D = 175 125 7D } | |
116 | 076 62 3E > 176 126 7E ~ | |
117 | 077 63 3F ? 177 127 7F DEL | |
fea681da | 118 | .TE |
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119 | .if t \{\ |
120 | .in | |
121 | .ft P | |
122 | \} | |
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123 | .SS Tables |
124 | For convenience, let us give more compact tables in hex and decimal. | |
125 | .sp | |
126 | .nf | |
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127 | .if t \{\ |
128 | .in 1i | |
129 | .ft CW | |
130 | \} | |
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131 | 2 3 4 5 6 7 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 |
132 | ------------- --------------------------------- | |
185ec3e4 | 133 | 0: 0 @ P \` p 0: ( 2 < F P Z d n x |
c0f153c6 | 134 | 1: ! 1 A Q a q 1: ) 3 = G Q [ e o y |
9f8e673e | 135 | 2: " 2 B R b r 2: * 4 > H R \\ f p z |
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136 | 3: # 3 C S c s 3: ! + 5 ? I S ] g q { |
137 | 4: $ 4 D T d t 4: " , 6 @ J T ^ h r | | |
138 | 5: % 5 E U e u 5: # \- 7 A K U _ i s } | |
185ec3e4 | 139 | 6: & 6 F V f v 6: $ . 8 B L V \` j t ~ |
82f2286b | 140 | 7: \' 7 G W g w 7: % / 9 C M W a k u DEL |
c0f153c6 | 141 | 8: ( 8 H X h x 8: & 0 : D N X b l v |
82f2286b | 142 | 9: ) 9 I Y i y 9: \' 1 ; E O Y c m w |
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143 | A: * : J Z j z |
144 | B: + ; K [ k { | |
9f8e673e | 145 | C: , < L \\ l | |
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146 | D: \- = M ] m } |
147 | E: . > N ^ n ~ | |
148 | F: / ? O _ o DEL | |
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149 | .if t \{\ |
150 | .in | |
151 | .ft P | |
152 | \} | |
c0f153c6 | 153 | .fi |
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154 | .SH NOTES |
155 | .SS History | |
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156 | An |
157 | .B ascii | |
158 | manual page appeared in Version 7 of AT&T UNIX. | |
159 | .LP | |
160 | On older terminals, the underscore code is displayed as a left arrow, | |
161 | called backarrow, the caret is displayed as an up-arrow and the vertical | |
162 | bar has a hole in the middle. | |
163 | .LP | |
164 | Uppercase and lowercase characters differ by just one bit and the | |
165 | ASCII character 2 differs from the double quote by just one bit, too. | |
166 | That made it much easier to encode characters mechanically or with a | |
167 | non-microcontroller-based electronic keyboard and that pairing was found | |
168 | on old teletypes. | |
169 | .LP | |
170 | The ASCII standard was published by the United States of America | |
171 | Standards Institute (USASI) in 1968. | |
172 | .\" | |
173 | .\" ASA was the American Standards Association and X3 was an ASA sectional | |
174 | .\" committee on computers and data processing. Its name changed to | |
175 | .\" American National Standards Committee X3 (ANSC-X3) and now it is known | |
176 | .\" as Accredited Standards Committee X3 (ASC X3). It is accredited by ANSI | |
177 | .\" and administered by ITI. The subcommittee X3.2 worked on coded | |
178 | .\" character sets; the task group working on ASCII appears to have been | |
179 | .\" designated X3.2.4. In 1966, ASA became the United States of America | |
180 | .\" Standards Institute (USASI) and published ASCII in 1968. It became the | |
181 | .\" American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in 1969 and is the | |
24b74457 | 182 | .\" U.S. member body of ISO; private and nonprofit. |
fea681da | 183 | .\" |
e37e3282 | 184 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
22cb22c9 | 185 | .ad l |
e37e3282 | 186 | .BR iso_8859-1 (7), |
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187 | .BR iso_8859-10 (7), |
188 | .BR iso_8859-13 (7), | |
189 | .BR iso_8859-14 (7), | |
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190 | .BR iso_8859-15 (7), |
191 | .BR iso_8859-16 (7), | |
192 | .BR iso_8859-2 (7), | |
9e781349 | 193 | .BR iso_8859-3 (7), |
a738dbe3 | 194 | .BR iso_8859-4 (7), |
9e781349 | 195 | .BR iso_8859-5 (7), |
a738dbe3 | 196 | .BR iso_8859-6 (7), |
e37e3282 | 197 | .BR iso_8859-7 (7), |
9e781349 | 198 | .BR iso_8859-8 (7), |
e37e3282 | 199 | .BR iso_8859-9 (7) |