

Ascii key codes code#
The character table below is showing a pixel precise graphical representation for each character, alongside with a text description. The complete table of ASCII characters, codes, symbols and signs, American Standard Code for. Only the extended character set differs from the original code page, both the control characters and the standard character set being plain ASCII. Space decimal code: 32 10: Space hex code: 20 16: Space binary code: 00100000 2: Space octal code: 15 8. It is not very popular, Code page 737 being the most widely used one. The characters in the 128-255 range are referred to as extended ASCII.Ĭode page 869 is an alternative code page used to write Greek language. It later was expanded to support 256 characters (8-bit code) in order to provide language specific characters, various symbols, as well as box-drawing characters: elements used for presentation purposes, allowing to draw different kind of frames and boxes. Also 128 characters were added, with new symbols, signs, graphics and latin letters, all punctuation signs and characters needed to write texts in other languages, such as Spanish. The first 32 characters are control characters (also called non-printable characters), which are used to control data streams as well as devices such as printers. In 1981, IBM developed an extension of 8-bit ASCII code, called 'code page 437', in this version were replaced some obsolete control characters for graphic characters.

The original character set, which is now referred as the standard character set was initially composed of 128 characters (7-bit code). American Standard Code for Information Interchange ( ASCII) is a widely used character encoding system introduced in 1963.
