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ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Seven (7) bit code. ASCII was introduced in 1963.

EBCDIC Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (used primarily on IBM mainframes). Eight (8) bit code.

Punched Card Code used for Hollerith (punched) cards (punching positions given in decimal). Thirteen (13) bit code.

International Morse Code The code originally developed for telegraph (Morse Code) had an equal number of bits per character. International Morse Code has a variable number of bits per character, with characters that occur more frequently having a smaller number of bits. Bits are represented by unipolar current pulses of long and short duration (usually 3:1, with pauses used to separate characters).

International Cable Code International Cable Code is similar to International Morse Code, except that its bits are represented by bipolar current pulses of uniform duration (positive matching Morse’s short pulse and negative matching Morse’s long pulse). Also, there is typically a great deal of variation in punctuation codes.

HTML metacharacters HTML has both numeric codes and name codes (metacharacters) for producing printable characters. HTML name codes are case sensitive. Older browsers typically don’t support very many name codes (that is, numeric codes are more likely to work in more browsers). Some of the new metacharacters only have name codes (no numeric code). Not all metacharacters work on all platforms or with all fonts (the widest support is on the Macintosh and Windows, which are each slightly different). The universally supported name codes are: ", &num;, &, <, and > (which are also essential as HTML escape metacharacters).

ERMA (Electronic Recording Method of Accounting), a magnetic ink and computer readable font, was created for the Bank of America in 1959.

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control codes
decimal digits
Roman letters
punctuation marks and special characters
sorted by numeric value

Values are in hexadecimal or binary, except as otherwise noted

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control codes

control code	meaning	punched card	EBCDIC	ASCII
ACK	acknowledge	0-6-8-9	2E	06
BEL	bell or alarm	0-7-8-9	2F	07
BS	backspace	11-6-9	16	08
BYP	bypass	0-4-9	24
CAN	cancel	11-8-9	18	18
CC	cursor control	11-2-8-9	1A
CR	carriage return	12-5-8-9	0D	0D
CU1	customer use 1	11-3-8-9	1B
CU2	customer use 2	0-3-8-9	2B
CU3	customer use 3	3-8-9	3B
DC1	device control 1	11-1-9	11	11
DC2	device control 2	11-2-9	12	12
DC3	device control 3			13
DC4	device control 4	4-8-9	3C	14
DEL	delete	12-7-9	07	7F
DLE	data link escape	12-11-1-8-9	10	10
DS	digit select	11-0-1-8-9	20
EM	end of medium	11-1-8-9	19	19
ENQ	enquiry	0-5-8-9	2D	05
EOT	end of transmission	7-9	37	04
ESC	escape	0-7-9	27	1B
ETB	end of transmission block	0-6-9	26	17
ETX	end of text	12-3-9	03	03
FF	form feed	12-4-8-9	0C	0C
FS	field separator	0-2-9	22
FS	file separator	11-4-8-9	(1C)	1C
GS	group separator	11-5-8-9	(1D)	1D
HT	horizontal tabulation	12-5-9	05	09
IFS	interchange file separator	11-4-8-9	1C	(1C)
IGS	interchange group separator	11-5-8-9	1D	(1D)
IL	idle	11-7-9	17
IRS	interchange record separator	11-6-8-9	1E	(1E)
IUS	interchange unit separator	11-7-8-9	1F	(1F)
LC	lower case	12-6-9	06
LF	line feed	0-5-9	25	0A
NAK	negative acknowledge	5-8-9	3D	15
NL	new line	11-5-9	15
NUL	null	12-0-1-8-9	00	00
PF	punch off	12-4-9	04
PN	punch on	4-9	34
RES	restore	11-4-9	14
RS	reader stop	5-9	35
RS	record separator	11-6-8-9	(1E)	1E
SI	shift in	12-7-8-9	0F	0F
SM	set mode	0-2-8-9	2A
SMM	start of manual message	12-2-8-9	0A
SO	shift out	12-6-8-9	0E	0E
SOH	start of heading	12-1-9	01	01
SOS	start of significance	0-1-9	21
SP	space	no punches	40	20
STX	start of text	12-2-9	02	02
SUB	substitute	7-8-9	3F	1A
SYN	synchronous idle	2-9	32	16
TM	tape mark	11-3-9	13
UC	upper case	6-9	36
US	unit separator	11-7-8-9	(1F)	1F
VT	vertical tabulation	12-3-8-9	0B	0B

control codes for International Morse Code:

SOS	. . . _ _ _ . . .	Break	_ . . . _ . _
Attention	_ . _ . _	Understand	. . . _ .
CQ	_ . _ . _ _ . _	Error	. . . . . . . .
DE	_ . . .	OK	. _ .
Go Ahead	_ . _	End of Message	. _ . _ .
Wait	. _ . . .	End of Work	. . . _ . _

decimal digits

digit	Morse	punched card	BCD	EBCDIC	ASCII	HTML numeric
0	_ _ _ _ _	0	F0	F0	30	0
1	. _ _ _ _	1	F1	F1	31	1
2	. . _ _ _	2	F2	F2	32	2
3	. . . _ _	3	F3	F3	33	3
4	. . . . _	4	F4	F4	34	4
5	. . . . .	5	F5	F5	35	5
6	_ . . . .	6	F6	F6	36	6
7	_ _ . . .	7	F7	F7	37	7
8	_ _ _ . .	8	F8	F8	38	8
9	_ _ _ _ .	9	F9	F9	39	9

Roman letters

letter	Morse	punched card	BCD	EBCDIC	ASCII	HTML numeric	HTML name	notes
A	. _	12-1	C1	C1	41	A
À						À	À	UPPERCASE A with accent grave
Á						Á	Á	UPPERCASE A with accent acute
Â						Â	Â	UPPERCASE A with accent circumflex
Ã						Ã	Ã	UPPERCASE A with tilde
Ä						Ä	Ä	UPPERCASE A with dieresis (umlaut)
Å						Å	Å	UPPERCASE A with ring
Æ						Æ	Æ	UPPERCASE AE diphthong (ligature)
B	_ . . .	12-2	C2	C2	42	B
C	_ . _ .	12-3	C3	C3	43	C
Ç						Ç	Ç	UPPERCASE C with cedilla
D	_ . .	12-4	C4	C4	44	D
Ð						Ð	Ð	UPPERCASE ETH
E	.	12-5	C5	C5	45	E
È						È	È	UPPERCASE E with accent grave
É						É	É	UPPERCASE E with accent acute
Ê						Ê	Ê	UPPERCASE E with accent circumflex
Ë						Ë	Ë	UPPERCASE E with umlaut (dieresis)
F	. . _ .	12-6	C6	C6	46	F
G	_ _ .	12-7	C7	C7	47	G
H	. . . .	12-8	C8	C8	48	H
I	. .	12-9	C9	C9	49	I
Ì						Ì	Ì	UPPERCASE I with accent grave
Í						Í	Í	UPPERCASE I with accent acute
Î						Î	Î	UPPERCASE I with accent circumflex
Ï						Ï	Ï	UPPERCASE I with umlaut (dieresis)
J	. _ _ _	11-1	D1	D1	4A	J
K	_ . _	11-2	D2	D2	4B	K
L	. _ . .	11-3	D3	D3	4C	L
M	_ _	11-4	D4	D4	4D	M
N	_ .	11-5	D5	D5	4E	N
Ñ						Ñ	Ñ	UPPERCASE N with tilde
O	_ _ _	11-6	D6	D6	4F	O
Ò						Ò	Ò	UPPERCASE O with accent grave
Ó						Ó	Ó	UPPERCASE O with accent acute
Ô						Ô	Ô	UPPERCASE O with accent circumflex
Õ						Õ	Õ	UPPERCASE O with tilde
Ö						Ö	Ö	UPPERCASE O with umlaut (dieresis)
Ø						Ø	Ø	UPPERCASE O with slash
Œ								UPPERCASE OE diphthong
P	. _ _ .	11-7	D7	D7	50	P
Q	_ _ . _	11-8	D8	D8	51	Q
R	. _ .	11-9	D9	D9	52	R
S	. . .	0-2	E2	E2	53	S
ß						ß	ß	sharp or double s (sz ligature)
T	_	0-3	E3	E3	54	T
ß						ß	Þ	UPPERCASE Thorn
U	. . _	0-4	E4	E4	55	U
Ù						Ù	Ù	UPPERCASE U with accent grave
Ú						Ú	Ú	UPPERCASE U with accent acute
Û						Û	Û	UPPERCASE U with accent circumflex
Ü						Ü	Ü	UPPERCASE U with umlaut (dieresis)
V	. . . _	0-5	E5	E5	56	V
W	. _ _	0-6	E6	E6	57	W
X	_ . . _	0-7	E7	E7	58	X
Y	_ . _ _	0-8	E8	E8	59	Y
Ý						Ý	&YAcute;	UPPERCASE Y with accent acute
Ÿ								UPPERCASE Y with umlaut
Z	_ _ . .	0-9	E9	E9	5A	Z
a		12-0-1		81	61	a
à						à	à	lowercase a with accent grave
á						á	á	lowercase a with accent acute
â						â	â	lowercase a with accent circumflex
ã						ã	ã	lowercase a with tilde
ä						ä	ä	lowercase a with umlaut (dieresis)
å						å	å	lowercase a with ring
æ						æ	æ	lowercase ae diphthong (ligature)
b		12-0-2		82	62	b
c		12-0-3		83	63	c
ç						ç	ç	lowercase c with cedilla
d		12-0-4		84	64	d
ð						ð	ð	lowercase eth
e		12-0-5		85	65	e
è						è	è	lowercase e with accent grave
é						é	é	lowercase e with accent acute
ê						ê	ê	lowercase e with accent circumflex
ë						ë	ë	lowercase e with umlaut (dieresis)
f		12-0-6		86	66	f
g		12-0-7		87	67	g
h		12-0-8		88	68	h
i		12-0-9		89	69	i
ì						ì	ì	lowercase i with accent grave
í						í	í	lowercase i with accent acute
î						î	î	lowercase i with accent circumflex
ï						ï	ï	lowercase i with umlaut (dieresis)
j		12-11-1		91	6A	j
k		12-11-2		92	6B	k
l		12-11-3		93	6C	l
m		12-11-4		94	6D	m
n		12-11-5		95	6E	n
ñ						ñ	ñ	lowercase n with tilde
o		12-11-6		96	6F	o
ò						ò	ò	lowercase o with accent grave
ó						ó	ó	lowercase o with accent acute
ô						ô	ô	lowercase o with accent circumflex
õ						õ	õ	lowercase o with tilde
ö						ö	ö	lowercase o with umlaut (dieresis)
ø						ø	ø	lowercase o with slash
œ								lowercase oe diphthong
p		12-11-7		97	70	p
q		12-11-8		98	71	q
r		12-11-9		99	72	r
s		11-0-2		A2	73	s
ß						ß	ß	sharp or double s (sz ligature)
t		11-0-3		A3	74	t
þ						þ	þ	lowercase thorn
u		11-0-4		A4	75	u
ù						ù	ù	lowercase u with accent grave
ú						ú	ú	lowercase u with accent acute
û						û	û	lowercase u with accent circumflex
ü						ü	ü	lowercase u with umlaut (dieresis)
v		11-0-5		A5	76	v
w		11-0-6		A6	77	w
x		11-0-7		A7	78	x
y		11-0-8		A8	79	y
ý						ý	ý	lowercase y with accent acute
ÿ						ÿ	ÿ	lowercase y with umlaut (dieresis)
z		11-0-9		A9	7A	z

punctuation marks and special characters

† indicates a hexadecimal value shared by two different BCD characters.

punctuation	mark	punched card	BCD	EBCDIC	ASCII	HTML numeric	HTML name
accent acute	´					´	´
accent grave	`				60	`	&grave;
ampersand	&	12	50†	50	26	&	&
angle quote mark, left	«					«	«
angle quote mark, right	»					»	»
apiece sign	@	4-8	7C†	7C	40	@
apostrophe (typewriter)	'	5-8		7D	27	'	'
apostrophe (typographical)	’
asterisk	*	11-4-8	5C	5C	2A	*	&ast;
at sign	@	4-8	7C†	7C	40	@
back slash	\				5C	\	\
bar, broken vertical	¦					¦	¦
bar, high	¯					¯	¯
bar, low	_	0-5-8		6D	5F	_	&lowbar;
bar, vertical	\|	12-7-8		4F	7C	\|	\|
blank (space)		no punches	40	40	20
braces, curly, left	{				7B	{	{
braces, curly, right	}				7D	}	}
bracket, square, left	[	12-8-5	4D		5B	[	[
bracket, square, right	]	11-8-5	5D		5D	]	]
broken vertical bar	¦					¦	¦
bullet	•
caret	^				5E	^	&circ;
cedilla	¸					¸	¸
cent mark	¢	12-2-8		4A		¢	¢
circumflex	^				5E	^	&circ;
colon	:	2-8	7D	7A	3A	:	&colon;
comma	,	0-3-8	6B	6B	2C	,	,
copyright sign	©					©	©
curly braces, left	{				7B	{	{
curly braces, right	}				7D	}	}
currency sign, general	¤					¤	¤
dagger, single	†
dagger, double	‡
dash, em	—						—
dash, en	–						–
degree sign	°					°	°
division sign	÷					÷	÷
dollar sign	$	11-3-8	5B	5B	24	$	&dollar;
dot	.	12-3-8	75	75	2E	.
double dagger	‡
double quotation mark (typewriter)	"	7-8		7F	22	"	"
double quote mark, right (typographical)	”
double quote mark, left (typographical)	“
dropped double quote	„
dropped single quote	‚
ellipses (three dots)	…						&ldots;
em dash	—						—
en dash	–						–
equal sign	=	6-8	7B†	7E	3D	=
exclamation point	!	11-2-8		5A	21	!
exclamation point, inverted	¡					¡	¡
feminine ordinal indicator	ª					ª	ª
foot mark	'	5-8	7D†	7D	27	'
forward slash	/	0-1	61	61	2F	/
fraction, one-half	¹/₂					½	½
fraction, one-quarter	¹/₄					¼	¼
fraction, three-quarters	³/₄					¾	¾
function sign	ƒ
general currency sign	¤					¤	¤
greater than sign	>	0-6-8	7E	6E	3E	>	>
half	¹/₂					½	½
high bar	¯					¯	¯
hyphen	-	11	60	60	2D	-	&hyphen;
hyphen, soft
inch mark	"	7-8		7F	22	"
inverted exclamation point	¡					¡	¡
inverted question mark	¿					¿	¿
left angle quote mark	«					«	«
left curly braces	{				7B	{	{
left double quote mark (typographical)	“
left parenthesis	(	12-5-8	6C†	4D	28	(	(
left single quote mark (typographical)	‘
left square bracket	[	12-8-5	4D		5B	[	[
left tag	<	12-4-8	4E	4C	3C	<	<
less than sign	<	12-4-8	4E	4C	3C	<	<
logical NOT	¬	11-7-8		5F		¬	¬
logical OR	\|	12-7-8		4F	7C	\|	\|
low bar	_	0-5-8		6D	5F	_	&lowbar;
macron	¯					¯	¯
masculine ordinal indicator	º					º	º
micro sign	µ					µ	µ
middle dot	·					·	·
minus sign	-	11	60	60	2D	-
multiply sign	×					×	×
multiplication sign	·					·	·
non-breaking space
not sign	¬	11-7-8		5F		¬	¬
number sign	#	3-8	7B†	7B	23	#	&num;
ordinal indicator, feminine	ª					ª	ª
ordinal indicator, masculine	º					º	º
paragraph mark	¶					¶	¶
parenthesis, left	(	12-5-8	6C†	4D	28	(	(
parenthesis, right	)	11-5-8	4C†	5D	29	)	)
percent	%	0-4-8	6C†	6F	25	%	&percnt;
period	.	12-3-8	75	75	2E	.	&period;
pilcrow	¶					¶	¶
plus sign	+	12-6-8	50†	4E	2B	+
plus-or-minus sign	±					±	±
pound sign	#	3-8	7B†	7B	23	#	&num;
pound sterling sign	£					£	£
prime	'	5-8		7D	27	'
quarter	¹/₄					¼	¼
question mark	?	0-7-8	C0	6F	3F	?
question mark, inverted	¿					¿	¿
quotation mark (typewriter)	"	7-8		7F	22	"	"
quote mark, left angle	«					«	«
quote mark, left double (typographical)	“
quote mark, left single (typographical)	‘
quote mark, right angle	»					»	»
quote mark, right double (typographical)	”
quote mark, right single (typographical)	’
registered trademark sign	®					®	®
right angle quote mark	»					»	»
right curly braces	}				7D	}	}
right double quote mark (typographical)	”
right parenthesis	)	11-5-8	4C†	5D	29	)	)
right single quote mark (typographical)	’
right square bracket	]	11-8-5	5D		5D	]	]
right tag	>	0-6-8	7E	6E	3E	>	>
salinity	‰
section sign	§					§	§
semicolon	;	11-6-8	5E	5E	3B	;	&semi;
single dagger	†
single quote mark (typewriter)	'	5-8	7D†	7D	27	'
single quote mark, left (typographical)	‘
single quote mark, right (typographical)	’
slash	/	0-1	61	61	2F	/
soft hyphen
solid bullet	•
space		no punches	40	40	20
space, non-breaking
spacing cedilla	¸					¸	¸
spacing dieresis	¨					¨
spacing macron	¯					¯	¯
square		12-8-4	4C†
square bracket, left	[	12-8-5	4D		5B	[	[
square bracket, right	]	11-8-5	5D		5D	]	]
squared	²					²	²
superscript 1	¹					¹	¹
superscript 2	²					²	²
superscript 3	³					³	³
three-quarters	³/₄					¾	¾
tick mark	`				60	`
tilde	~				7E	~	&tilde;
trademark sign	™						™
trademark, registered	®					®	®
tripled	³					³	³
typewriter double quotation mark	"	7-8		7F	22	"	"
typewriter single quotation mark	'	5-8	7D†	7D	27	'
typographical apostrophe	’
typographical left double quote mark	“
typographical left single quote mark	‘
typographical right double quote mark	”
typographical right single quote mark	”
umlaut	¨					¨	¨
underscore	_	0-5-8		6D	5F	_	&lowbar;
vertical bar	\|	12-7-8		4F	7C	\|	\|
vertical bar, broken	¦					¦	¦
virgule	/	0-1	61	61	2F	/
yen sign	¥					¥	¥

† indicates a hexadecimal value shared by two different BCD characters.

sorted by numeric value

hex	binary	decimal	BCD	EBCDIC	ASCII	HTML
00	00000000	0		NUL	NUL
01	00000001	1		SOH	SOH
02	00000010	2		STX	STX
03	00000011	3		ETX	ETX
04	00000100	4		PF	EOT
05	00000101	5		HT	ENQ
06	00000110	6		LC	ACK
07	00000111	7		DEL	BEL
08	00001000	8			BS
09	00001001	9			HT
0A	00001010	10		SMM	LF
0B	00001011	11		VT	VT
0C	00001100	12		FF	FF
0D	00001101	13		CR	CR
0E	00001110	14		SO	SO
0F	00001111	15		SI	SI
hex	binary	decimal	BCD	EBCDIC	ASCII	HTML
10	00010000	16		DLE	DLE
11	00010001	17		DC1	DC1
12	00010010	18		DC2	DC2
13	00010011	19		TM	DC3
14	00010100	20		RES	DC4
15	00010101	21		NL	NAK
16	00010110	22		BS	SYN
17	00010111	23		IL	ETB
18	00011000	24		CAN	CAN
19	00011001	25		EM	EM
1A	00011010	26		CC	SUB
1B	00011011	27		CU1	ESC
1C	00011100	28		IFS	FS
1D	00011101	29		IGS	GS
1E	00011110	30		IRS	RS
1F	00011111	31		IUS	US
hex	binary	decimal	BCD	EBCDIC	ASCII	HTML
20	00100000	32		DS	space
21	00100001	33		SOS	!
22	00100010	34		FS	"	"
23	00100011	35			#	&num;
24	00100100	36		BYP	$	&dollar;
25	00100101	37		LF	%	&percnt;
26	00100110	38		ETB	&	&
27	00100111	39		ESC	' (apos)	'
28	00101000	40			(	(
29	00101001	41			)	)
2A	00101010	42		SM	*	&ast;
2B	00101011	43		CU2	+
2C	00101100	44			, (comma)	,
2D	00101101	45		ENQ	-	&hyphen;
2E	00101110	46		ACK	.	&period;
2F	00101111	47		BEL	/
hex	binary	decimal	BCD	EBCDIC	ASCII	HTML
30	00110000	48			0
31	00110001	49			1
32	00110010	50		SYN	2
33	00110011	51			3
34	00110100	52		PN	4
35	00110101	53		RS	5
36	00110110	54		UC	6
37	00110111	55		EOT	7
38	00111000	56			8
39	00111001	57			9
3A	00111010	58			:	&colon;
3B	00111011	59		CU3	;	&semi;
3C	00111100	60		DC4	<	<
3D	00111101	61		NAK	=
3E	00111110	62			>	>
3F	00111111	63		SUB	?
hex	binary	decimal	BCD	EBCDIC	ASCII	HTML
40	01000000	64	space	space	@
41	01000001	65			A
42	01000010	66			B
43	01000011	67			C
44	01000100	68			D
45	01000101	69			E
46	01000110	70			F
47	01000111	71			G
48	01001000	72			H
49	01001001	73			I
4A	01001010	74		¢	J
4B	01001011	75	.	.	K
4C	01001100	76	)	<	L
4D	01001101	77	[	(	M
4E	01001110	78	<	+	N
4F	01001111	79		\|	O
hex	binary	decimal	BCD	EBCDIC	ASCII	HTML
50	01010000	80	&+	&	P
51	01010001	81			Q
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53	01010011	83			S
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56	01010110	86			V
57	01010111	87			W
58	01011000	88			X
59	01011001	89			Y
5A	01011010	90		!	Z
5B	01011011	91	$	$	[	[
5C	01011100	92	*	*	\	\
5D	01011101	93	]	)	]	]
5E	01011110	94	;	;	^	&circ;
5F	01011111	95		¬	_	&lowbar;
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60	01100000	96	-	-	`	&grave;
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6B	01101011	107	,	,	k
6C	01101100	108	%(	%	l
6D	01101101	109		—	m
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6F	01101111	111		?	o
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70	01110000	112			p
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7C	01111100	124	@'	@	\|	\|
7D	01111101	125	:	' (apos)	}	}
7E	01111110	126	>	=	~	&tilde;
7F	01111111	127		"	DEL
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80	10000000	128
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85	10000101	133		e		&ldots;
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87	10000111	135		g
88	10001000	136		h		&circ;
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8E	10001110	142
8F	10001111	143
hex	binary	decimal	BCD	EBCDIC	ASCII	HTML
90	10010000	144
91	10010001	145		j
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99	10011001	153		r		™
9A	10011010	154
9B	10011011	155
9C	10011100	156
9D	10011101	157
9E	10011110	158
9F	10011111	159
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A0	10100000	160
A1	10100001	161				¡
A2	10100010	162		s		¢
A3	10100011	163		t		£
A4	10100100	164		u		¤
A5	10100101	165		v		¥
A6	10100110	166		w		¦
A7	10100111	167		x		§
A8	10101000	168		y		¨
A9	10101001	169		z		©
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AB	10101011	171				«
AC	10101100	172				¬
AD	10101101	173
AE	10101110	174				®
AF	10101111	175				¯
hex	binary	decimal	BCD	EBCDIC	ASCII	HTML
B0	10110000	176				°
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B2	10110010	178				²
B3	10110011	179				³
B4	10110100	180				´
B5	10110101	181				µ
B6	10110110	182				¶
B7	10110111	183				·
B8	10111000	184				¸
B9	10111001	185				¹
BA	10111010	186				º
BB	10111011	187				»
BC	10111100	188				¼
BD	10111101	189				½
BE	10111110	190				¾
BF	10111111	191				¿
hex	binary	decimal	BCD	EBCDIC	ASCII	HTML
C0	11000000	192	?			À
C1	11000001	193	A	A		Á
C2	11000010	194	B	B		Â
C3	11000011	195	C	C		Ã
C4	11000100	196	D	D		Ä
C5	11000101	197	E	E		Å
C6	11000110	198	F	F		Æ
C7	11000111	199	G	G		Ç
C8	11001000	200	H	H		È
C9	11001001	201	I	I		É
CA	11001010	202				Ê
CB	11001011	203				Ë
CC	11001100	204				Ì
CD	11001101	205				Í
CE	11001110	206				Î
CF	11001111	207				Ï
hex	binary	decimal	BCD	EBCDIC	ASCII	HTML
D0	11010000	208	!			Ð
D1	11010001	209	J	J		Ñ
D2	11010010	210	K	K		Ò
D3	11010011	211	L	L		Ó
D4	11010100	212	M	M		Ô
D5	11010101	213	N	N		Õ
D6	11010110	214	O	O		Ö
D7	11010111	215	P	P		×
D8	11011000	216	Q	Q		Ø
D9	11011001	217	R	R		Ù
DA	11011010	218				Ú
DB	11011011	219				Û
DC	11011100	220				Ü
DD	11011101	221				&YAcute;
DE	11011110	222				Þ
DF	11011111	223				ß
hex	binary	decimal	BCD	EBCDIC	ASCII	HTML
E0	11100000	224				à
E1	11100001	225				á
E2	11100010	226	S	S		â
E3	11100011	227	T	T		ã
E4	11100100	228	U	U		ä
E5	11100101	229	V	V		å
E6	11100110	230	W	W		æ
E7	11100111	231	X	X		ç
E8	11101000	232	Y	Y		è
E9	11101001	233	Z	Z		é
EA	11101010	234				ê
EB	11101011	235				ë
EC	11101100	236				ì
ED	11101101	237				í
EE	11101110	238				î
EF	11101111	239				ï
hex	binary	decimal	BCD	EBCDIC	ASCII	HTML
F0	11110000	240	0	0		ð
F1	11110001	241	1	1		ñ
F2	11110010	242	2	2		ò
F3	11110011	243	3	3		ó
F4	11110100	244	4	4		ô
F5	11110101	245	5	5		õ
F6	11110110	246	6	6		ö
F7	11110111	247	7	7		÷
F8	11111000	248	8	8		ø
F9	11111001	249	9	9		ù
FA	11111010	250				ú
FB	11111011	251				û
FC	11111100	252				ü
FD	11111101	253				ý
FE	11111110	254				þ
FF	11111111	255				ÿ
hex	binary	decimal	BCD	EBCDIC	ASCII	HTML

geek humor

Where do the characters go when I use my backspace or delete them on my PC?

Answer: The characters go to different places, depending on whom you ask:

The Buddhist explanation: If a character has lived rightly, and its karma is good, then after it has been deleted it will be reincarnated as a different, higher character. Those funny characters above the numbers on your keyboard will become numbers, numbers will become letters, and lower-case letters will become upper-case.

The 20th-century bitter cynical nihilist explanation: Who cares? It doesn’t really matter if they’re on the page, deleted, undeleted, underlined, etc. It’s all the same.

The Mac user’s explanation: All the characters written on a PC and then deleted go to straight to PC hell. If you’re using a PC, you can probably see the deleted characters, because you’re in PC hell also.

Stephen King’s explanation: Every time you hit the (Del) key you unleash a tiny monster inside the cursor, who tears the poor, unsuspecting characters to shreds, drinks their blood, then eats them, bones and all. Ha, ha, ha!

The Christian Church’s approach to characters: The nice characters go to Heaven, where they are bathed in the light of happiness. The naughty characters are punished for their sins. Naughty characters are those involved in the creation of naughty words.

Dave Barry’s explanation: The deleted characters are shipped to Battle Creek, Michigan, where they’re made into Pop-Tart filling; this explains why Pop-Tarts are so flammable, while cheap imitations are not flammable. I’m not making this up.

IBM’s explanation: The characters are not real. They exist only on the screen when they are needed, as concepts, so to delete them is merely to de-conceptualize them. Get a life.

PETA’s (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) explanation: You’ve been DELETING them??? Can’t you hear them SCREAMING??? W hy don’t you go CLUB some BABY SEALS while wearing a MINK, you pig!

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