ASCII Character Codes

The expression ASCII character is widely used in computing. This means the American Standard Code for Information Interchange and is a list of numbered codes that identify all the characters that are used on a computer.

The codes basically range from 32 to 126 or sometimes 127. There are further codes from 128 to 255 which extend the character set, but these are not usually standard. The codes used by printers mostly conform to the ASCII standard, with some slight variations.

One of these variations is the use of the '£ ' instead of the '#' when set to the UK setting.

A suitable list of the main ASCII character codes is included, and an ASCII code file 'ASCII.TXT' is on the system disc and can be printed out.

ASCII codes (decimal) for the normal character set:

32 space 33 ! 34 " 35 # or £
36 $ 37 % 38 & 39 '
40 ( 41 ) 42 * 43 +
44 , 45 - 46 . 47 /
48 0 49 1 50 2 51 3
52 4 53 5 54 6 55 7
56 8 57 9 58 : 59 ;
60 < 61 = 62 > 63 ?
64 @ 65 A 66 B 67 C
68 D 69 E 70 F 71 G
72 H 73 I 74 J 75 K
76 L 77 M 78 N 79 O
80 P 81 Q 82 R 83 S
84 T 85 U 86 V 87 W
88 X 89 Y 90 Z 91 [
92 \ 93 ] 94 ^ 95 _
96 ` 97 a 98 b 99 c
100 d 101 e 102 f 103 g
104 h 105 i 106 j 107 k
108 l 109 m 110 n 111 o
112 p 113 q 114 r 115 s
116 t 117 u 118 v 119 w
120 x 121 y 122 z 123 {
124 | 125 } 126 ~ 127 del

For characters above there is no set codes. There are four Latin character sets which contain characters in the upper half that relate to different areas that use Latin text:

Latin 1 - Europe General (ANSI)
Latin 2 - Eastern Eorope
Latin 3 - Southern Europe
Latin 4 - Scandinavia

The ANSI character set is the set normally recognised by Windows.

The other character set Windows recognises is OEM. The is the equivalent of the standard DOS screen.