ASCII
What’s ASCII?
Text encoding standard for electronic communication, limited to 128 code points. ASCII (/ˈæskiː/, ASS-kee), 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 devices. ASCII has just 128 code points, of which only 95 are printable characters, which severely limit its scope.
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ASCII printable characters (character code 32-127)
Codes 32-127 are common for all the different variations of the ASCII table, they are called printable characters, represent letters, digits, punctuation marks, and a few miscellaneous symbols. You will find almost every character on your keyboard. Character 127 represents the command DEL.
DEC | OCT | HEX | BIN | Symbol | HTML Number | HTML Name | Description |
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32 | 040 | 20 | 00100000 | SP | Space | ||
33 | 041 | 21 | 00100001 | ! | ! | ! | Exclamation mark |
34 | 042 | 22 | 00100010 | " | " | " | Double quotes (or speech marks) |
35 | 043 | 23 | 00100011 | # | # | # | Number sign |
36 | 044 | 24 | 00100100 | $ | $ | $ | Dollar |
37 | 045 | 25 | 00100101 | % | % | % | Per cent sign |
38 | 046 | 26 | 00100110 | & | & | & | Ampersand |
39 | 047 | 27 | 00100111 | ' | ' | ' | Single quote |
40 | 050 | 28 | 00101000 | ( | ( | &lparen; | Open parenthesis (or open bracket) |
41 | 051 | 29 | 00101001 | ) | ) | &rparen; | Close parenthesis (or close bracket) |
42 | 052 | 2A | 00101010 | * | * | * | Asterisk |
43 | 053 | 2B | 00101011 | + | + | + | Plus |
44 | 054 | 2C | 00101100 | , | , | , | Comma |
45 | 055 | 2D | 00101101 | - | - | Hyphen-minus | |
46 | 056 | 2E | 00101110 | . | . | . | Period, dot or full stop |
47 | 057 | 2F | 00101111 | / | / | / | Slash or divide |
48 | 060 | 30 | 00110000 | 0 | 0 | Zero | |
49 | 061 | 31 | 00110001 | 1 | 1 | One | |
50 | 062 | 32 | 00110010 | 2 | 2 | Two | |
51 | 063 | 33 | 00110011 | 3 | 3 | Three | |
52 | 064 | 34 | 00110100 | 4 | 4 | Four | |
53 | 065 | 35 | 00110101 | 5 | 5 | Five | |
54 | 066 | 36 | 00110110 | 6 | 6 | Six | |
55 | 067 | 37 | 00110111 | 7 | 7 | Seven | |
56 | 070 | 38 | 00111000 | 8 | 8 | Eight | |
57 | 071 | 39 | 00111001 | 9 | 9 | Nine | |
58 | 072 | 3A | 00111010 | : | : | : | Colon |
59 | 073 | 3B | 00111011 | ; | ; | ; | Semicolon |
60 | 074 | 3C | 00111100 | < | < | < | Less than (or open angled bracket) |
61 | 075 | 3D | 00111101 | = | = | = | Equals |
62 | 076 | 3E | 00111110 | > | > | > | Greater than (or close angled bracket) |
63 | 077 | 3F | 00111111 | ? | ? | ? | Question mark |
64 | 100 | 40 | 01000000 | @ | @ | @ | At sign |
65 | 101 | 41 | 01000001 | A | A | Uppercase A | |
66 | 102 | 42 | 01000010 | B | B | Uppercase B | |
67 | 103 | 43 | 01000011 | C | C | Uppercase C | |
68 | 104 | 44 | 01000100 | D | D | Uppercase D | |
69 | 105 | 45 | 01000101 | E | E | Uppercase E | |
70 | 106 | 46 | 01000110 | F | F | Uppercase F | |
71 | 107 | 47 | 01000111 | G | G | Uppercase G | |
72 | 110 | 48 | 01001000 | H | H | Uppercase H | |
73 | 111 | 49 | 01001001 | I | I | Uppercase I | |
74 | 112 | 4A | 01001010 | J | J | Uppercase J | |
75 | 113 | 4B | 01001011 | K | K | Uppercase K | |
76 | 114 | 4C | 01001100 | L | L | Uppercase L | |
77 | 115 | 4D | 01001101 | M | M | Uppercase M | |
78 | 116 | 4E | 01001110 | N | N | Uppercase N | |
79 | 117 | 4F | 01001111 | O | O | Uppercase O | |
80 | 120 | 50 | 01010000 | P | P | Uppercase P | |
81 | 121 | 51 | 01010001 | Q | Q | Uppercase Q | |
82 | 122 | 52 | 01010010 | R | R | Uppercase R | |
83 | 123 | 53 | 01010011 | S | S | Uppercase S | |
84 | 124 | 54 | 01010100 | T | T | Uppercase T | |
85 | 125 | 55 | 01010101 | U | U | Uppercase U | |
86 | 126 | 56 | 01010110 | V | V | Uppercase V | |
87 | 127 | 57 | 01010111 | W | W | Uppercase W | |
88 | 130 | 58 | 01011000 | X | X | Uppercase X | |
89 | 131 | 59 | 01011001 | Y | Y | Uppercase Y | |
90 | 132 | 5A | 01011010 | Z | Z | Uppercase Z | |
91 | 133 | 5B | 01011011 | [ | [ | [ | Opening bracket |
92 | 134 | 5C | 01011100 | \ | \ | \ | Backslash |
93 | ] | ] | Closing bracket | ||||
94 | 136 | 5E | 01011110 | ^ | ^ | ^ | Caret - circumflex |
95 | 137 | 5F | 01011111 | _ | _ | _ | Underscore |
96 | 140 | 60 | 01100000 | ` | ` | ` | Grave accent |
97 | 141 | 61 | 01100001 | a | a | Lowercase a | |
98 | 142 | 62 | 01100010 | b | b | Lowercase b | |
99 | 143 | 63 | 01100011 | c | c | Lowercase c | |
100 | 144 | 64 | 01100100 | d | d | Lowercase d | |
101 | 145 | 65 | 01100101 | e | e | Lowercase e | |
102 | 146 | 66 | 01100110 | f | f | Lowercase f | |
103 | 147 | 67 | 01100111 | g | g | Lowercase g | |
104 | 150 | 68 | 01101000 | h | h | Lowercase h | |
105 | 151 | 69 | 01101001 | i | i | Lowercase i | |
106 | 152 | 6A | 01101010 | j | j | Lowercase j | |
107 | 153 | 6B | 01101011 | k | k | Lowercase k | |
108 | 154 | 6C | 01101100 | l | l | Lowercase l | |
109 | 155 | 6D | 01101101 | m | m | Lowercase m | |
110 | 156 | 6E | 01101110 | n | n | Lowercase n | |
111 | 157 | 6F | 01101111 | o | o | Lowercase o | |
112 | 160 | 70 | 01110000 | p | p | Lowercase p | |
113 | 161 | 71 | 01110001 | q | q | Lowercase q | |
114 | 162 | 72 | 01110010 | r | r | Lowercase r | |
115 | 163 | 73 | 01110011 | s | s | Lowercase s | |
116 | 164 | 74 | 01110100 | t | t | Lowercase t | |
117 | 165 | 75 | 01110101 | u | u | Lowercase u | |
118 | 166 | 76 | 01110110 | v | v | Lowercase v | |
119 | 167 | 77 | 01110111 | w | w | Lowercase w | |
120 | 170 | 78 | 01111000 | x | x | Lowercase x | |
121 | 171 | 79 | 01111001 | y | y | Lowercase y | |
122 | 172 | 7A | 01111010 | z | z | Lowercase z | |
123 | 173 | 7B | 01111011 | { | { | { | Opening brace |
124 | 174 | 7C | 01111100 | | | | | ||
125 | 175 | 7D | 01111101 | } | } | } | Closing brace |
126 | 176 | 7E | 01111110 | ~ | ~ | ˜ | Equivalency sign - tilde |
127 | 177 | 7F | 01111111 | DEL | � | Delete |